[kentrado]

As a black person, the switch from master to main, is the most condescendingly racist thing that has been widely adopted in tech. It says "black people are too stupid to understand context. We (small group of white people) must protect them against words."

Another thing it does, is that it promotes the identification of blacks as slaves when all races have been enslaved (and continue to this day).

[jalapenos]

Based on how uppity about it around the time the whites I talked to about it were, yes it was 100% this.

The high horse riding was surreal. They all took long savouring draws of their own farts after each 'master' branch they renamed to 'main'.

When I mentioned that none of the people they did this in the name of were helped, they met it with abject hostility. Narcissism is a hell of a condition.

[sleiben]

100% with you here! Great arguments

edit: It also reminds me of men playing feminist and stepping (aggressively) up to protect women’s rights. I heard from my female colleagues that they hate this since it implies that women are like children and aren’t able or mature enough to speak up for themselves. So the «strong men» need now to protect them…

[SSLy]

I don't live in USA, but this very week one of such staunch feminists was ousted as a groomer and violent partner. https://www.wirtualnemedia.pl/artykul/gargamel-jakub-chuptys...

[gadders]

Many such cases.

[PartiallyTyped]

The “white saviour” complex is well documented. Well-meaning but racist in their ignorance white people try to save people based on racist stereotypes and caricatures of imagined problems.

[philistine]

Hey, maybe the white dude feels icky about the master/slave thing. Maybe it's not about the opinions of black people but words we want in common usage in our societies.

[TheHappyOddish]

Is the intent to completely remove the terms? That's a new angle I hadn't heard. I guess it makes said guilty feeling persons life easier, as they can't hear about the currently happening slavery in the world and can continue on their merry way.

[philistine]

The point is to correlate the word slavery with the concept of human slavery only. Disallowing a word to be used outside that usage is better for everyone.

[about3fitty]

I would like to ask: do you have a position on the following?

- an allowlist/blocklist to replace whitelist/blacklist

-primary/replica to replace master/slave

Also, how old are you? I’m not young but not old and I don’t associate racial overtones to the latter terms

[tapland]

Is replica used that way? That can't be

[worik]

I've started using "mistress"

Meh