Avoid master/slave terminology

Similar nonsense came up not too long ago so I'm just going to borrow my previous post:

If you want to make progress in tech, don't let "progress" (in quotations) live rent free in your mind. Focus on actually building stuff.

I hate to use oppression Olympics as an argumentative avenue but I'm a Slav, the word slavery comes from the enSLAVement of Slavic people.

It's often an accurate description of the relationship and even if it's just slightly inefficient, still works great. Why pollute your mind and thought stream with such trivial qualms. Build. Learn. Don't sweat dumb crap.

Same with whitelist / blacklist. From an English perspective these and master/slave have been archetypes for as long as the language has existed. Don't make problems where there are none, and don't TRY to pollute my mind by making me think there are problems, where again there are none. Enough people outside of tech are doing that to the populace.

> whitelist / blacklist

I tried really hard to find a race basis for this but could not.

This topic is very US centric and shows how deep the disregard is for people of other ethnicities.

> The word slovo ("word") and the related slava ("glory, fame") ... [0]

The word is indeed derived from "slav" ethnonym and it's unbelievable that no one actually cares. The whole thing smells not just "word policing" but "history revisionism".

Jewish people were enslaved for so much of their history (by babylonians, egyptians etc) should we simply forget that because some people feel uneasy hearing the word slave and imagining this inhumane practice? Also no one forces you to antropomorfize technical concepts.

It strikes me how fast the discussion went off topic to the "subconscious racism" of black people in the previous threads about this. [1]

As mentioned in other discussion, this is a very slippery slope to go. Next time I won't be able to use the technical term "torture testing" to refer to server workloads because torture sounds aggressive and inhumane. What more combination of words I won't be able to use? Will I be able to write about "cookie stealing", it's illegal to steal so we surely need to ban that word. There are after all people that have their whole life savings stolen from them by the crooked investment managers so the "stealing" concept will remind them about that and might hurt their feelings.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs_(ethnonym) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17930979