I'd used to think these changing master/slave PRs where stupid, no one I know has ever used the words due to there use in slavery or as a form of racism in code

I'd used to think these changing master/slave PRs where stupid, no one I know has ever used the words due to there use in slavery or as a form of racism in code. The people often offended by the master/slave terms are middle-class white folk on Twitter who think it offends other people. Then at some point, I realized it's not worth caring. If it only stops one person from being offended, the effort and time spent debating over it are far more than doing a search and replace and closing the issue to save the headache and distraction from real problems. In saying that, the GitHub one renaming / removing the default master branch is bizarre. Never have I seen a branch named slave, which can be linked to master/slave terminology. Again it's not worth my effort caring over it, but it is strange. Are we trying to remove the word master from our vocabulary entirely because it is also used to describe people who traded slaves way before our lifetime? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/master https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/master.