'master' and 'whitelist' have nothing to do with race or racism.<p>It seems that some people are projecting their own prejudice onto unrelated words and perhaps they should reflect on why they relate everything to race.
If you're going to replace the terms "whitelist" and "blacklist", why not consider making use of the actual definitions and use something like "include-list" and "exclude-list"?<p>I'm not even necessarily a fan of that nomenclature, but I'm surprised that's not one of the replacements that are considered (in the Twitter poll in the article for example).