GitHub moving away from 'master' and 'slave' branch names amid racial tensions
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Re: GitHub moving away from 'master' and 'slave' branch names amid racial tensions
#2I hope, as part of the movement to clean the language of touchy usage, the word "slave" also gets dropped from English and other languages since it derives from "Slavic" people who, during the Roman times, were captured and used for unpaid labour.
Please do not refer to the practice of abusing people and forcing them to work as "slavery" either.
I am exaggerating a bit, but the point stands: master might have a bad connotation when it comes to enslavement, but the term has and has had other meanings prior to being used in that manner.
Since this discussion went so far as to touch on black- and whitelists, I wonder if we are to stop from black symbolizing darkness (you know, night) and ill, and white from symbolizing light (day) and good.
Re: GitHub moving away from 'master' and 'slave' branch names amid racial tensions
#3I hope, as part of the movement to clean the language of touchy usage, the word "slave" also gets dropped from English and other languages since it derives from "Slavic" people who, during the Roman times, were captured and used for unpaid labour. Please do not refer to the practice of abusing people and forcing them to work as "slavery" either. I am exaggerating a bit, but the point stands: master might have a bad c…
And not to be taken wrongly: I do believe BLM movement is needed, and the only problem with it is that it's a bit late.
But superficial "support" like this is meaningless.
Re: GitHub moving away from 'master' and 'slave' branch names amid racial tensions
#4I hope, as part of the movement to clean the language of touchy usage, the word "slave" also gets dropped from English and other languages since it derives from "Slavic" people who, during the Roman times, were captured and used for unpaid labour. Please do not refer to the practice of abusing people and forcing them to work as "slavery" either. I am exaggerating a bit, but the point stands: master might have a bad c…
you have to wonder, where does this end?
Re: GitHub moving away from 'master' and 'slave' branch names amid racial tensions
#5Github signals their own slavery
Re: GitHub moving away from 'master' and 'slave' branch names amid racial tensions
#6Github signals their own slavery
So much so... the mouthing of diversity, freedom ..in the most cynical manner being explicitly forced only to the narrowest conformity of ideas, opinions and interpretations suitable to the ideology. This has been here so many times, and yet, we collectively fail to see this for what it is. (Either you are with us or against us -- the epitome of civil society rules by reason)
Re: GitHub moving away from 'master' and 'slave' branch names amid racial tensions
#7Are they going to rename also all Slavs?
Re: GitHub moving away from 'master' and 'slave' branch names amid racial tensions
#8I have never seen a “slave” branch in my life. “master” does not only refer to master/slave relations. I’m fine with changing this but it is ever so slightly silly.
Re: GitHub moving away from 'master' and 'slave' branch names amid racial tensions
#9Github signals their own slavery
Seems like a pretty mild form of slavery if all they have to do is change some words.
Re: GitHub moving away from 'master' and 'slave' branch names amid racial tensions
#10I hope, as part of the movement to clean the language of touchy usage, the word "slave" also gets dropped from English and other languages since it derives from "Slavic" people who, during the Roman times, were captured and used for unpaid labour. Please do not refer to the practice of abusing people and forcing them to work as "slavery" either. I am exaggerating a bit, but the point stands: master might have a bad c…
you have to wonder, where does this end?
In the words of John Oliver, "somewhere". It ends somewhere. You don't do nothing because you don't know exactly where it might end.
Should we remove confederate statues from places of honor? Where does it end?
I'm not all for word policing, but if some words I am using are making people feel bad, I don't see any problem in trying to change those words. As long as removing these words is coming out of mutual respect and not from laws that are infringing on our rights of free speech.
Which is the case here. I don't think anyone is forcing anyone to remove words like master and slave.