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It's hard to take this as anything more than PC nonsense gone mad. Context is important. Master branches are not perpetuating slavery and this kind of lazy poli
by 0xy 6y ago
It's hard to take this as anything more than PC nonsense gone mad. Context is important. Master branches are not perpetuating slavery and this kind of lazy political thinking that words have singular meanings and must be banned is dangerous and scary.
Master can also refer to a term used in the BDSM community for totally consensual purposes. Should we be demonizing them too? How regressive.
- wokwokwok 6y agoIt costs basically nothing to do this if you feel strongly about it. It costs you literally nothing if you don’t care / don’t agree and don’t do it yourself. Just live and let live; is being outraged by it not just as bad as what you’re criticising? Should we care what other people call their branches now?!!? How regressive.
- robobro 6y agoWhat about Master Masons (term in freemasonry) ? We don't imply the existence of Slave Masons...
- benjohnson 6y agoThe beginning Mason is an Apprentice, or more specifically an Entered Apprentice
- mstrthrawy76 6y agoThrowaway because when magazine editors are resigning over photos in poor taste from 7 years ago, there's no way I'm posting this under my name, but... Fuck, do people have nothing better to do? PC nonsense, indeed.
- Gunax 6y agoOf course we know that using master/slave terminology doesn't actually perpetuate harm. But the reason to change it is because a lot of people don't like hearing it or saying it. It feels like a punch to the gut when I have to hear master/slave being applied to hard drives. It's perhaps a difficult thing to describe if you have not felt it. I know some of you will think I am being dramatic. I know some of you will flub your lips at it. Yes, I am aware it's just words, and you aren't literally advocating for slavery. But it really does cause me discomfort to have to talk about masters and slaves. Maybe that isn't enough justification for you. But I assure you I am not a theoretical person conjuring ways to make the world more PC just to virtue signal. There really are some people who would rather avoid those terms.
- 0xy 6y agoWhy do you think that your discomfort about a word which you've applied the wrong definition to should result in the censorship for everyone of that purely innocent word? There are people offended about many things in life, but that doesn't mean we should try to accommodate every single person offended over every little thing (especially when you use the wrong definition to perpetuate it). Git is software that provides a level playing field for developers of all creeds, and had zero bad intentions when naming elements of the software. "Master" isn't even a slavery reference at all. To say that it is is to claim that words cannot have multiple meanings, something which is patently false. Master (the definition invoked by Git) has no negative history, and no negative connotations.
- alwillis 6y agorenaming the master branch is just the more inclusive path, that should be pretty clear at this moment in our history—why do you want to insist on pushing back against that just to keep a name that has caused (and continues to cause) so much emotional and psychological harm?? https://twitter.com/vaidehijoshi/status/1271555825069244417?s=21 https://twitter.com/vaidehijoshi/status/1271555825069244417?...