[ceejayoz]

Socrates got executed for his speech. "Cancel culture" has been with us since we invented social groups. Monkeys ostracise members of the group on a regular basis. Why do you think "so and so got in trouble for saying something offensive" is a new phenomenon?

[audessuscest]

I'm very sorry if you can't see how this is getting out of proportion and more and more irrational, it just means you're lacking basic sense of observation and I recommend you to work on that.

And regarding the word "master", do you think a black guy will get offended to get called a masterchief ? a chess master ? no way... It doesn't make any sense. There were hundreds of millions of white slave in history, and still white people don't seem to get concerned by that, because it's not used for "political" matter.

I'm always surprise on HN to see the smartest people falling for the dumbest propaganda.

[ceejayoz]

> it just means you're lacking basic sense of observation and I recommend you to work on that

I will absolutely be willing to take that criticism from someone who hasn't fallen for the NY Post's "Adele is canceled because we found a tweet from someone with 375 followers".

> And regarding the word "master", do you think a black guy will get offended to get called a masterchief ?

If you call your mother "mother", will she be mad? How about "motherfucker"? Compound words change meaning.

[audessuscest]

like master branch ? lol...