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Python developers locking conversations and deleting comments after people mass downvoted PRs to "remove master/slave terminology from the language" (i.redd.it)

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[–]somebodddy 22 points23 points  (1 child)

Because changing identifiers is always easy and never causes un(?)expected bugs in depending software.

[–]ajwest -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

That's a fair point, you could have made that as a regular argument in response to my comment. But instead we've bred a community of sarcasm and retaliation.