Already submitted [1] less than two hours ago.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10677423" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10677423</a>
Oh boy. Here we go. Another prompt for diatribes on the rampant overly-sensitive coddled generation oft-offended PC oppression crusaders threatening our freedom of expression by bowdlerizing traditional language which had specific meaning in a specific domain. To which the proponents of the change will reply, Languages evolve, and sensitivity matters, and -- you're _a racist_ if you don't agree. So the water in the toilet bowl swirls on.
Really? How did this even get approved? Who was ever offended when they were coding writing out slave in their editor? By technical definition, slave is accurate. It isn't there to offend.