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Showerthoughts

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It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago

That's all fine and good for computer science, but if Master/Slave terminology is canceled, who's going to tell the philosophy department?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca -4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Don’t know anyone who has a problem with it

I think it was just an ad campaign by Github to capitalize on BLM

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