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"Master/slave is debatable, because it isn't actually discriminatory"

As a white man, I cannot tell if some black people are offended by that, but I hope not. I had never thought about racism when discussing technical matters using this terminology... until a few weeks ago.

What surprises me it that some people think that changing technical terms will change the lives of victims of racism.

This debate made me think again about a quote from some engineers from the erlang/OTP team:

"We were working on the R1 release of OTP when a group of us left the office and took the commuter train into Stockholm. We were talking about the ease of killing children, children dying, and us not having to worry about it, as supervisors would trap exits and restart them ... we failed notice the expression of horror on the faces of the old ladies sitting next to us "

Should we now rename child/parent relationship too, to please old ladies?