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“among us” doesn’t evoke a context of terrible crimes against millions of people

• salawat 6y ago
  Neither does "master" in reference to content versioning or electronics. Not that that stopped anyone from getting huffy about it.
  • Ar-Curunir 6y ago
    er master combined with slave sure does, and that's the origin in tech.
    • tester756 6y ago
      I think it's ok to remind that this problem probably had no place in non-native english speakers minds. Using "master/slave" didn't create any connections to crimes 'n' similar - those were completely neutral terms until this show started.
      • Ar-Curunir 6y ago
        Er because slavery is a fine practice outside the antebellum south? Are you seriously arguing that other kinds of slavery are not problematic?
    • salawat 6y ago
      Origin in tech is electronics. Master/slave has seen quite a good history of use due to the relationship the master switch has to downstream elements. It's state, determines the state of those that follow. Downstream elements are 'slaved' to the "master's" state, which is a valid, ahistorical description that's been around since my grandparent's time at least. The fact there are folks who can't seperate their own discomfort with certain aspects of American history from technical contexts is not the fields' or practitioners problem.