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Maybe not discrimination, but overly empathic?
Or maybe some really are offended by it, which also wouldn't surprise me, although the majority probably couldn't care less about the word master.
I think the same about white people though.
That's just general human stupidity, which isn't bound by race 
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Sander Rossel wrote: master bedroom
When I was looking to move 3 years ago I found out the term has been changed to owner's suite instead of master bedroom. 
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: owner's suite
Reminds me of the time when people owned other people.
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Exactly. If you're looking to be offended, "owner's suite" is not much better.
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I thought you were making fun of the people who are offended by everything, but now it appears you are one of them. Must be rough.
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Wow, man, take a chill pill. Turn it down a thousand.
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Some people associate "slave" with People of Color.
That's how their minds work.
Me, I think of Princess Leia when she was hanging out with Jabba.
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GenJerDan wrote: Some people associate "slave" with People of Color.
And those people are usually looking for an excuse to start a fight.
Slavery has existed since the dawn of man, and it certainly has nothing to do with race. Historically people have had no issue enslaving their own. It was just cheap labour, in the end it's always about money.
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GenJerDan wrote: Some people associate "slave" with People of Color.
Which is historically incorrect. The term comes from the Slavic peoples: At the time when the term was coined, a major fraction of the involuntary workers were Slavs.
There has been involuntary workers of all races. There has been lots of terms to refer to them. Using the term slave to refer to non-Slavs is really a misnomer. It would be much more correct to refer to higly pigmented people by their lack of skin color (when relevant - e.g. to describe the looks of a person). But that is not acceptable in today's society.
For a while, "afro-american" was the recommended euphemisms. But several of my Indian afro-american co-workers have never been neither to Africa nor to America!
It is worth noting that the English word for maximum dark and the word in various Europenan languages for the very opposite - "blanc", "blanco", "blank"... - have a common etymological roots, meaning something like "void of color". I find it fascinating that we now replace the term "people void of color" with the euphemism "people of color" 
Re. euphemisms: Linguists have traced the term used for "the little room" in Norwegian through more than thirty generations of terms that started out as euphemisms, but as common people started using it, the high classes had to invent a new euphemism to avoid using "vulgar" terms. If I in my boyhood referred to "dass", I was told to wash my mouth with soap - but "dass" is really an euphemism for German "das Häuschen", which also is an obvious euphemism. But over the years, the ehphemism for an euphemism degraded to below vulgar language.
So, I am convinced that within ten to twenty years, referring to someone as a "person of color" will be just as offensive as using the English term for "void of color", and we'll have a new euphemism. Or five, all of them slowly becoming offensive, so they have to be replaced again.
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Just the beginning
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Kevin Marois wrote: WTH
Helephant ? 
Interestingly, I have been working on a product that has a master-slave actuator system, and I cannot count about how many times we joked about when the political correctness will hit us and force us to rename half of our SW functions and rewrite the documentation.
It looks like we hit that point.
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I suppose it was more "what the hell"
M.D.V. 
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Trunk... Goes perfectly with Git... 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Yawn...
Haven't you better things to do?
I dunno, watching paint dry might be more worthy of such feelings, you know. Some advertisers are really lying on how long it takes! 
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What colour paint are we talking about here?
I am joking of course, but it prompts further thoughts... I wonder statistically how many bathrooms are painted white, as opposed to black? Surely there is only one possible reason for that... I feel I am on to a front page story here, just can't put my finger on exactly what it is yet...
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musefan wrote: I wonder statistically how many bathrooms are painted white, as opposed to black?
The only bathroom painted black that I can think of is the one in Disaster Area's stunt spaceship. 
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Black bathroom matter just as much to the discerning buyer, let me tell you! 
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I agree. This goes along with cancelling a cartoon about a dog that's a detective, and I heard the show The BlackList is in danger of being cancelled as well.
As a car guy, I wonder what will become of my clutch slave cylinder.
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I think cartoons with mice as detectives are accepted. They may even own dogs!
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#realJSOP wrote: I wonder what will become of my clutch slave cylinder.
You will forced to free it - better get used to it... and even better to do it yourself, before the activists come to you...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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...and then pay reparation to it.
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If the bitches feel froggy, they are invited to jump...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I should probably post this in technical, but... I freed my IDE drives by removing all the master / slave jumpers, now my desktop won't boot up; have I done something wrong?
The sad truth is that slavery is alive and well in the modern world, but this madness sweeps it under the carpet because we will no longer have the words to describe it. What you can't talk about, you can't fix. 
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Kevin Marois wrote: WTH is wrong with people??
GitHub to replace "master" with alternative term to avoid slavery references | ZDNet
I don't see any replies with the relevant explanation but...
The intention to not offend with this terminology is actually where the "Client/Server" movement came from. If you think about it, it is pretty much the same thing backwards with different labelling. The Client makes requests, the server services those requests. A master makes a request, the slave fulfills the request.
My first observation of it in the wild was about 1976, from IBM. From what I've seen, nobody changed existing terminology but all new architectures used the new improved politically correct terminology. For example, the Unibus on Digital Equipment Corp PDP and VAX machines had bus master, slave devices, SLBI/SLBO, SWO (slave lower byte in, slave lower byte out, slave word out) etc. None of these changed names but Digital followed through with client server model in software services and for all new products.
I was suprised when I discovered Raspberry Pi in 2012 that they have an I2C interface, which contains MOSI, MISO (master in slave out, ...) pins. Wikipedia says that it (I2C) was invented about 1982 by Philips (same era but European and somewhat detached from the issue).
I suspect that things will follow the pattern from 1976 this time, but new technologies will arise in importance because they are more politically correct than (say) I2C. The old technologies will die for emotional reasons instead of technical merit.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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