[McP]

I've helped compile guidance on inclusive language for my company. Whoever came up with this list has scored an own-goal against people who genuinely seek to make their communities more inclusive.

There are words like "slave" that actually cause offense to real people when used in a trivialising way. Accordingly, terminology around databases and the like has changed, and that's a good thing.

A laundry list of terms to be "eliminated", some of which are completely harmless makes a joke of real problems and is the opposite of helpful.

[laserdancepony]

I do not agree about the master/slave idiocy. These terms have been used for ages in the IT universe, and never once have I come across someone who insinuated racism. What about "server", does that not insinuate that there once were serfdom? Or "protocol", we are all on a spectrum now, that old fashioned way of thinking triggers me!

Not one step back, or they will rip us apart.