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Depends what going overboard means. Is it a waste of time? Well, it doesn’t take that much time, so no. Is it effective at fighting racism? My bets are on the n
by ironmagma 6y ago
Depends what going overboard means. Is it a waste of time? Well, it doesn’t take that much time, so no. Is it effective at fighting racism? My bets are on the number of people before and after the change who are racist being exactly the same. Whether it’s effective or not is dubious because we have no way of doing a measurement. Aren’t there some evidence-backed ways of fighting racism we can look at instead?
- quattrofan 6y agoAgreed, this is token nonsense. No-one ever became racist because a MySQL server was referred to as a slave and no racist will stop being one if they are now called "Secondary" or something.
- sh461 6y agoIt makes some sense to remove the term slave since it's a direct reference to slavery and there are a bunch of other terms that you can use which won't be offensive and will also be more descriptive and professional. Master on the other hand has multiple different uses and meanings most of which have nothing to do with slavery. Changing the naming of git branches seems like a massive overreaction, doesn't achieve anything substantial and it also sets a strange precedent in which one use case of a word damages all others.