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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
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Simon:
Satellite if fine at a high system level and accurately describes the smaller ECU's. But the comms method is master/slave end of.
SiliconWizard:
This is just getting ridiculous. Really.

Even for people actively working against racism IMHO. They are just wasting their time (and everyone else's) while there are certainly valid causes to defend.
If anything, this is just getting non-activists irritated, which just works against their cause. I sometimes wonder if those people are not just sabotaging the cause actually while just trying to get some exposure.

As an extra thought specifically about this "word ban" approach: I suggest those people to read (or re-read) "1984". The idea of banning words from the language just for the sake of avoiding related thoughts to even form in peoples' heads is exactly what was described as "Newspeak".
Simon:
The bottom line is that too many people are assholes and if you take all of these issues they just come back to one thing, bullying others to boost ones ego. once a particular group are found to be on the hit list often it stops being called bullying and in a minority name ism and then people go nuts and act like its a governments fault when it is people. I am not one of those so i will feel more than justified to keep calling things what they are.
mfro:

--- Quote from: JoeN on June 11, 2020, 06:37:43 am ---I propose changing MASTER to PRIMARY and SLAVE to SECONDARY.
--- End quote ---

Try an unambigous description of an IDE controller interface + drives using your proposal...

Btw. words (and facts behind them) don't go away by just some people not using them for unrelated purpose. You just leave the (innocent) words to them that use them badly.
free_electron:

--- Quote from: ataradov on June 11, 2020, 07:16:24 am ---Next they will go for male and female connectors :)

Those are just words. There is no need to eliminate them from the language entirely if they were used for bad things in one specific context.

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and there is already heavy prejudice against sexless connectors (apc-7)
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