For me personally it's offensive because master and slave don't, never did, and never will, specifically refer to a single culture's experience - and that the i

For me personally it's offensive because master and slave don't, never did, and never will, specifically refer to a single culture's experience - and that the idiocy of identifying the technical use of those terms with racism could itself only come from a racist mind. [edit] while you downvote this, consider that my grandparents family were literal slave workers prior to being shot, and no, I don't think we should BAN THE TERM. Only insufferable racist snobs think that calling a computer a "master" or a "slave" makes normal people think of HUMAN SLAVES AND MASTERS. And even if they do think of human slaves and masters, then hopefully no normal person would think of some racist thing after that. And if they did, then that is a racist problem, not the words. Do you understand? Do you understand that my grandparents didn't survive to live in a world where words are banned because some idiot draws a connotation from them and assumes that other people will as well, or just to exercise power over other individuals? Like, fuck you!