[lmilcin]

The downside is this is pretty meaningless. The words "master" and "slave" are not cause of pain and suffering and even erasing them from the vocabulary is not going to change anything.

Never in my life even for a second I had any connotation between words master and slave used in IT and any derogatory meaning for anybody. I don't remember a single instance in the past 20 years when I could possibly link any utterance of these words in IT setting to any kind of discrimination, derogatory meaning.

These words are just statement of facts, describing relationship. If not these, there will be other words to state exact same relationship with exact same meaning. Contrast this with the N word which is clearly derogatory.

Are we going to be renaming colors, too? Am I going to find a new name for the color of my car?

If you care for black lives, cooperating to find and work on an actual solution seems to me much more worth your while and shooting in everything that moves is wasting time at a critical point when time is of the essence.

These kinds of moves are only going to entrench the opposition, giving more arguments against and achieve nothing.

[rich_sasha]

The big companies could instead pay their engineers to tutor underprivileged kids or let the do shadowing. But no, let’s rename everything, and do a press release.

[taylodl]

Lots of big companies do pay their engineers to tutor underprivileged kids. This isn’t an either/or case.