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At https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23763739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23763739 I collected examples posted to HN, like one from https://news.yco
by eesmith 4y ago
At https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23763739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23763739 I collected examples posted to HN, like one from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4617174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4617174 :
> A coworker and I were de-duping records in a database. One of us said while pairing on the script "well, every slave needs a master."
> An african american woman in the office turned to us and said "maybe it's the master who needs the slave?"
> She wasn't really offend or anything and she said it with a sincere smile. She was just calling out our idiotic computer lingo for what it was.
So, neither excluded nor offended. But it was still in bad taste.
- TexanFeller 4y agoThanks for sharing that. I might adjust terminology myself after that even though it didn’t actually harm or offend them.
- poopnugget 4y ago