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GitHub moving away from 'master' and 'slave' branch names amid racial tensions

6 pointsby jamesdeppalmost 5 years ago

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josteinkalmost 5 years ago
But we can still pay for GitHub using MasterCard.<p>So yeah. Until that is banned, I’m not believing this genuinely reflects anyone’s actual belief besides trying to score cheap PR points during the BLM riots.
necovekalmost 5 years ago
I hope, as part of the movement to clean the language of touchy usage, the word &quot;slave&quot; also gets dropped from English and other languages since it derives from &quot;Slavic&quot; people who, during the Roman times, were captured and used for unpaid labour.<p>Please do not refer to the practice of abusing people and forcing them to work as &quot;slavery&quot; either.<p>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.<p>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.
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