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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
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Syntax Error:
You guys are right to mention modern slavery. I doubt any urbane white hipster who demands everything via social media, gives a second thought for the traffiked Vietnamese slave who cultivates his ganja.

Maybe for master/slave bus, a ruler/pleb bus?

But in the light if decency, this about I2C might need a rewrite? "Slaves are chained together under the control of the master." Not cool. :wtf:
Simon:
define "chain together" in electronics.
amyk:
How about dom and sub... :o

I remember a while ago coming across the website of a connector manufacturer, which through automated translation had products which were "bisexual", "gay", and "lesbian".  :-DD
0xdeadbeef:
Actually, the word "slave" seems to come from the Slavs (East European people), so while racist in a way, originally it certainly was not aimed at Africans (or African Americans) at all. Besides, slavery was quite common in the ancient world also among people of the same ethnicity. Anyway, as with many other words, today's meaning was influenced by the history until then, so I can understand that people are offended by this. Actually, while I don't really care so much about "PC" issues, I also wondered why someone would choose such a potentially offending term when I first stumbled over this master/slave nomenclature. There certainly would have been other choices like master/servant or commander/subordinate and so on. But yeah, now that the term is widely used, it's kinda hard to change it.
Simon:
All words had to come from somewhere, virtually all words are derived of others, if you want to go down that rabbit hole soon we won't be allowed to speak.
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