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> When I hear about slavery, I think about the poor people that did not have any freedom, not about black people. There have been african slaves in africa, asia
by eeh 6y ago
> When I hear about slavery, I think about the poor people that did not have any freedom, not about black people. There have been african slaves in africa, asian slaves in asia, european slaves in europe and native american slaves in native american civilizations for thousands of years.
Yes, slavery has been around for a long time in many countries, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to improve our terminology.
> Forbidding vocabulary like this only reduces the quality of debates on the long term and does not make anything better. That is how dictatorships works.
This vocabulary hasn't been forbidden. The word is still used, it's just not used re Github.
That said, I consider Github's proposed change to be virtue signaling. Was anybody actually upset at this, or are changes being made just because they can be?
Update: Let me know who disagrees with what. I've disagreed with points made on both sides, so maybe that guarantees ire?
- cosmiccatnap 6y agoI think you are missing a vital point though. In computer science these relationships ARE master and slave by definition. One is an all beholden slave to a all powerful master and that's ok because it's a computer and it doesn't have feelings like that. If it's referencing anything it's simply a clever way to process an analogy for what it's doing. To think that this is where we need to focus our time is a bit silly when you could be out in the streets. To me it feels like GitHub wants to have the illusion of being progressive while changing something that nobody considered even remotely offensive literally 24h ago