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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
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james_s:
Reminds me of all the giggles and snickering about the word "mastication" when I was in 7th grade. Some words sound a lot like other words that have completely different meanings and origins. It's better to learn what words mean and how to use them properly than to worry that they may sound like something else.
magic:

--- Quote from: coppice on June 23, 2020, 04:08:37 pm ---Wasn't someone prominent fired last year for saying niggardly?

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America never fails to deliver :popcorn:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_niggardly
tom66:

--- Quote from: james_s on June 23, 2020, 05:28:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: tom66 on June 23, 2020, 07:56:32 am ---Are we going to ban the term "coloured wire" in case it offends people who remember pre-civil-rights times when black people were called similar terms?

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It's "wire of color" now, didn't you get the memo?

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No, it's African American wire ... get with the times!
pickle9000:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on June 23, 2020, 07:51:40 am ---
--- Quote from: pickle9000 on June 23, 2020, 06:11:13 am ---Wow what a topic.
In any case I don't see anything here about education. For myself educating children about the subject would be far more useful. Hiding the words is like hiding the truth. The truth is often ugly but it is necessary to understand our mistakes and tendencies.
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The terms Master and Slave are not ugly when applied to technology. Teach people that words can have multiple meanings when applied to different things and in different cultures, and that context and intent matter, they matters a lot. That's what you should be teaching teaching kids.

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You are correct, of course. I was in fact referring to words in general and not to slave and master in particular. Context is everything.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: SkyMaster on June 23, 2020, 06:50:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: tom66 on June 23, 2020, 07:56:32 am ---Are we going to ban the term "coloured wire" in case it offends people who remember pre-civil-rights times when black people were called similar terms?

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Black, yellow, white and brown wires need to be banned, because choosing one particular colour over the others would be a demonstration of racism  ;)
 :)

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