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I'm astonished anyone ever thought otherwise. Has anyone ever encountered a git branch called 'slave'?
by DC-3 6y ago
I'm astonished anyone ever thought otherwise. Has anyone ever encountered a git branch called 'slave'?
- JMTQp8lwXL 6y agoHere's roughly 4,000 instances of branch names containing 'slave' for you to peruse: https://github.com/search?q=head%3Aslave https://github.com/search?q=head%3Aslave
- arp242 6y agoThere's a quite a few false positives in that list (e.g. a person named "slavek" always using his name in branch names), a few references to the "master/slave" analogy, and browsing the first few pages I keep seeing the same usernames over and over again (mostly from what seem to be non-native English speakers). So the number seems much lower than 4000, and mostly the result from a very small group of people. I don't know how many branches there are in GitHub, but this seems like a very very small percentage.
- smitty1e 6y agoIt has become increasingly obvious that the Roman alphabet and English language must be replaced due to their overwhelming historical baggage.
- Kednicma 6y agoReplaced with what, though? Nobody talking about "slave" seems to notice that "servant" and "robot" have similar baggage despite different linguistic roots.
- rumanator 6y ago> Replaced with what, though? With a glorious newspeak that greatly improves on the legacy language by simplifying the grammar and adding safety mechanisms to ensure all conversations are safe spaces.
- alwillis 6y agoNobody talking about "slave" seems to notice that "servant" and "robot" have similar baggage despite different linguistic roots. As I sometimes say, I've been Black my entire 50+ years on the planet. I've never met another Black person (or anyone regardless of their race or ethnicity) that felt that robot has “similar baggage” to the word slave.