Every time people talk about master-slave servers at work they always pause and say “hey, that sounds really horrible, doesn’t it?” That time adds up, too. Why not use a less charged term? If it were something actually humorous, the few seconds a day it takes could be rounded down as morale-building, but if anything it is deleterious in a small way rather than droll after the first couple dozen times you are forced to use the terminology.
What a bizarre thing to get from what I’m saying. That’s not the sort of thing you’d get if you were engaging in good faith.
FWIW, I misunderstood this quote, thought he was talking about making up the master password debate. Turns out he meant his “offended by the letter P” business. My bad. I should not have said that was a made-up example.
Wow. Now I’m really curious what examples are too extreme for the average progressive and social justice advocate to support.
I bet LHOD won’t call the students who got their professor suspended for saying 那个 without a trigger warning ‘fragile’.
Mostly because I think they’re lying. At least in this specific case - I don’t buy that this actually makes anyone’s life more difficult.
Seriously? I’ve been in IT for over 40 years. Nobody has ever said that.
Nobody at Mozilla said that when Master Password was introduced.
IBM has had a Master the Mainframe program for many years.
Master Locks has been around longer (I suspect) than anyone here.
But your group is somehow more woke than anyone else? C’mon. Doesn’t pass the smell test.
And even if true: so one person in one group thinks something sounds odd. The rest of the world changes to “fix” that? That way lies madness.
(Oops, can’t say “madness”, the mentally ill might take offense!)
To be 100% clear: I’m not saying no PC terminology changes can ever make sense. I’m saying that people have lost the plot and are making changes that cost (on various levels) more than they help. If every word used by every person in every sentence is to be analyzed, we’re well on the way to thoughtcrime. And if you’re going to defend thoughtcrime…
I agree it is necessary but not sufficient, but I’ve heard lots of uses of “politically correct” in the context of someone who has said something offensive defending it by saying “sorry I was not politically correct.” In other words, sometimes attacking political correctness is an excuse for bigotry.
I’m not objecting to how you used the term, btw. But the way it has been used makes it a bit unsavory.
I don’t think it’s the word “Master” itself, but instances when the word master is coupled with “slave.”
Computers do (or, did,) have master and slave drives. Getting away from speaking in that dichotomy is what people are trying to avoid.
I’ve never heard anyone suggesting that theater arts stop using the word “Master class,” nor that “Master Lock” someone mentioned earlier, needs to change its name, because it’s not part of a master/slave coupling.
That’s their rationale, but I’m pretty sure there’s no such thing as a ‘slave password’.
I just had a look at the Wikipedia article, and apparently Salt is replacing the terms with master/minion. Now that’s the kind of change I can get behind!
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