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> Slavery still goes on today and changing the terminology has done nothing to help that in any way. I'm aware slavery exists in other contexts and continues.

> Slavery still goes on today and changing the terminology has done nothing to help that in any way. I'm aware slavery exists in other contexts and continues. In this case, I was trying to point out the first thing that comes to mind when I hear "slave". I imagine other US born devs might think similarly. I doubt this would do anything to solve slavery, but it would make me more comfortable. > Is your skin colour relevant to your answer in any way? I have no idea why you included that Since this is a racially charged topic, I assume the opinion of someone of color would hold more weight. I wanted to make my background clear so you wouldn't be guessing.

collyw 6y ago
> I assume the opinion of someone of color would hold more weight. So you expect me to treat you differently based on revealing your skin colour? My personal opinion is that such an attitude will do far more harm to racial relations than the use of master / slave in technical documentation. We should be looking to make skin colour as irrelevant as eye colour. You don't get there by bringing up skin colour at every opportunity.
yakshaving_jgt 6y ago
> I assume the opinion of someone of color would hold more weight This is a harmful idea. Do you think an anti-vaxxer's opinion should hold more weight because she's a mother?