[exabrial]

I found the whole "renaming things war" the first time stupid; as it peaked with renaming "master" to "main", highlighting both an ignorance and literacy problem.

This time around, it's just as stupid, it's just coming from the other side.

I'm hoping this exposes both sides to how ridiculous this crap is.

[subsection1h]

> it peaked with renaming "master" to "main"

For me, no rename will ever surpass freedom fries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries

[exabrial]

... I forgot about that one. The jokes write themselves.

[hitekker]

I'm interested in the names that stayed out of the war. Git Branches were an open field of conflict, but "Masters" programs somehow were not.

The reason I've heard is that contemporary Academics were simply comfortable with their terms, and unwilling to change them. It was inertia, which combined with their power as America's secular theologians, weighted the discourse away from their privilege.