Poll of the Day > The debate on "offensive" computing terms

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Muscles posted...

If someone adds a racial connotation to it then yeah, I agree that it's wrong, but don't tell me that you can't tell the difference between the 2 based on the context

even without adding something to it just seeing and having to use the terms master and slave together while working might bother some people given the long history of oppression and the ongoing fight for civil rights in america

no one is trying to say that in the tech world master and slave means slave owner and literal slave, from slavery but theres also nothing at all wrong with people talking from time to time about the kinds of language used in the workplace and what people are or are not comfortable with. And if enough people are uncomfortable with a terminology then there usually isnt any harm in coming up with an alternative that people can use if they choose.

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especially now as our police continue disproportionately brutalizing, humiliating, and murdering people of color, language that hearkens back to white dominance of non-white lives should just be avoided if there's any alternative

and there's plenty of alternatives

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agesboy posted...

especially now as our police continue disproportionately brutalizing, humiliating, and murdering people of color, language that hearkens back to white dominance of non-white lives should just be avoided if there's any alternative

and there's plenty of alternatives

It doesn't harken back to that, and changing the names won't do shit to lessen police brutality

i never said it would lessen police brutality, it will simply make the people who are subject to it less uncomfortable

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streamofthesky posted...

The more you pander to the crazies (on either extreme), the more they are emboldened to push for ever more radical bs.

Pretty much this. You give into their bs, it gets worse I feel.

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I honestly doubt anybody has ever raised this as an issue

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i'll use whatever anyone else is using to be the most effective in communicating. that being said i work with clusters all the time and everything is master and some form of worker node, secondary or otherwise. don't see slave too much.

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These people are going to lose their minds when they learn about the Spanish language.

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