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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts

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free_electron:

--- Quote from: Alex Eisenhut on June 11, 2020, 12:40:43 pm ---Boss and employee?

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Manager and worker
Controller and node
Dispatch and Handler

whatever.
Central unit and remote unit

Simon:
It's actually easier using deprecated words, their meaning is unambiguous. Most swear words were common words once. Words change. and that should be a testament to the fact that things do change, the bad thing goes away and the word takes on a new meaning. The alternative is we all speak raw binary or HEX......

TimFox:
Whatever terminology comes out of this discussion, I strongly object to substituting "primary" and "secondary", since there is a well-defined universal meaning of these terms for transformers, etc. that is quite different from the current meaning of the allegedly offensive terms.  I have no problem with neologism, where a new word is coined for a new requirement, but I object to changing existing words so that the meaning is obscured. 

GlennSprigg:
I'm personally sick of these 'terms' being taken out of context.
Everyone wants to make 'everything' 'racist' now, even when not the intention!!
If an 'Asian' restaurant chooses to employ 'Asian' looking people in 'Asian' dress, I don't think that
is 'Racist'??  It's simply an attempt to look 'Authentic'.  However, if they said... "We don't want the
likes of 'Southerners' working here because they are ass-holes", then THAT is Racist!!!
If, in some 'Play', they showed a 'black-faced' person, and it was RELEVANT to what the Play was
about, (even siding towards apparent inequality), then that is NOT racist?!  It is a depiction of what
the realistic 'story' is about. It is NOT a 'put-down' on a particular race/creed...    >:(

I'm NOT suggesting that we should be un-feeling, and say/do what ever we want, but simply for
people to not be so 'Politically Correct' these days, and take everything over the top!
I mean, some people are Black/White/Yellow etc etc, but here in Australia, it is now considered
'illegal' to have a 'Black' doll... ??  Where was the ABUSE for those people?? I don't remember when
I was young, EVER thinking less of anyone because of 'colour', of a 'person' or a 'doll'....

Just don't 'tar' everyone with the same damn brush.......

DrG:
I suppose "pimp" and "bitch" are out of the question.

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