Because if you go after "words that may be considered offensive in some context" you'll end up with a very limited vocabulary. Where I'm from, the word "collab

Because if you go after "words that may be considered offensive in some context" you'll end up with a very limited vocabulary. Where I'm from, the word "collaborator" is universally associated with collaborating with either the communist regime or the nazi occupant. Does it make the word bad? Should github change it to something else? Look beyond your own culture and you'll soon find that no word is safe to use. Also, isn't Github still helping ICE build concentration camps for kids? And yet the hypothetically offensive meaning of "master" is where they draw the line?