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> The article is saying renaming master to main in Github won't help race relations one bit and he's annoyed that it's probably white people who come up with th
by wiremine 6y ago
> The article is saying renaming master to main in Github won't help race relations one bit and he's annoyed that it's probably white people who come up with these things.
I think he's right that it was probably white people who came up with it.
My first point is that words do matter. We can debate how much the specific word "master" matters, but my point was that words do matter.
My other point about investing also supports his main thesis.
- kamranjon 6y agoI guess what the article was suggesting was that context determines whether words matter and it's ridiculous to determine that words matter for someone else without including them in the conversation.