Changing reality with language is a Soviet propaganda tool, actually more and more used elsewhere. Look at Trump, BoJo et al. It doesn’t change reality. It mud

Changing reality with language is a Soviet propaganda tool, actually more and more used elsewhere. Look at Trump, BoJo et al. It doesn’t change reality. It muddled the problem, confounds the description of the problem with the solution, and makes us forget where we come from. The shame of using the term ‘slave’ for an electronic device or ‘master’ for a Git branch is here to stay, to remind us where we come from. Erasing them is fighting history and language, and as such worse than futile. Sure, some terms are outright offensive, but this is not the case here. There are some factual errors in the article too, but I’ll leave that. As a Slav I have no issue with the term “slave”, not least because it’s not the root of the word...