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by gregd 1887 days ago
Actually there are legitimate arguments that master/slave in this context (IT) are precisely tied to slavery.
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Yes, but not _black_ slavery. It's not inherently racist terminology.
Those legitimate arguments are themselves not in in the context of IT, though. They lie in the intersection of word semantics, etymology and the racial politics of the extreme left.