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It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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[-] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 76 points 1 month ago

I personally think the whole backlash against master/slave in the computing world is people looking for something in their sphere of knowledge to be offended about so they can feel like they are part of "a movement". Even if some mustache twirling racist was the first "computer guy" to come up with the term and meant it to be offensive, that is not how sane people view it today. So some of the advocates for changing it should stop trying to build it up into some Pizzagate-like conspiracy against black/brown people.

Having said that, I also don't have any strong attachments to the phrasing either. Phase it out in favor of something that makes everyone happy if that keeps the peace. It is just a term that made sense at the time to describe something. There is nothing stopping us from changing it to something else now if we so choose. It is not erasing heritage or some such nonsense. If anything, people having strong hangups about it if there are better or equally as good terms out there that doesn't make people uncomfortable is far weirder in my opinion.

The only thing I have somewhat strong opinions about is making it some high priority to go back and erase those terms from solutions that already exist. Change them as you update things, sure, but why create extra work to update something old that is currently working if the only change is not functional and just verbiage. Seems like wasted effort that could be better directed and solving functional issues to me.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

while in some ways I can see your point, I would just have a hard time saying this in a work meeting here in the deep south with black colleagues present

[-] dezmd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Whitelist and Blacklist is on that stack as well.

[-] ultramaven@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Bro I fucking said “whitelist” in a meeting and got so many glares, fuck all of these fucking uneducated pieces of shit that can only punch down because they know nothing except “DATS RACIST”

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