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FWIW, I'm also a database researcher (or I used to be, in industry now) and at least in my sphere we tried to avoid master/slave terminology, and in fact I learned this from my advisor at the time, a well-respected professor, who mentioned it was racially insensitive. So, I don't think this is being forced by anyone except the people in the database community already. It's not like progressive mindsets don't exist in the database research community. Databases aren't exactly a great space to imply that conservatism is the mainstream and that progressives are foreign; several prominent current and former researchers are/have been women and the gender ratio is quite a bit different compared to other sub-fields.

That is to say, I don't understand the rhetorical implication here that progressives, or people who want to change master/slave terminology in general, are not part of the community they want to see change in. When that happens, it's just a community discussing about terminological use in their own sphere, which is also exactly what the blog post here is doing. I feel this should be welcomed within any community.