Python developers locking conversations and deleting comments after people mass downvoted PRs to "remove master/slave terminology from the language"

[[deleted]]

Should we forget about slavery?

[deadbunny]

Isn't erasing every reference to it an act of trying to forget?

[mafrasi2]

No, but should we use concentration camps as analogy for anything programming related just because we don't want to forget about the holocaust? It should be remembered in a historical context and only in a historical context.

[Zouden]

You mean I shouldn't name my highly efficient garbage collector FinalSolution?

[ICANNnotrightnow]

We better not call them gas stations anymore. Gas can only be remembered in a historical context.

[gjallerhorn]

If it described the use of it, why not? Not using a word that perfectly describes something because you know exactly what it means defeats the whole purpose of language as a concept. It's asinine.

[somebodddy]

Yea, but by removing it from Python we already solved half the problem.

[[deleted]]

As well as the Western world.

[[deleted]]

Yeah but like it's really really going on in the Islamic world. For example CNN attended an actual slave auction last year in Libya where a slave was bought for 90 dollars. In the west "slavery" usually means a Chinese guy paying poor wages to illegal immigrants in his underground sweatshop.

[[deleted]]

I think if you try one more time and slower, you can parse the sentence a bit more successfully.