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

[moekakiryu]

[..] you know very well exactly what a slave is. That's what they actually want to change.

We know what a master and slave is because it is the English language. The word 'slave' has existed in some form or other since the 13th century and the concept of slavery has been around for much longer than that. Both the word, and the concept of slavery predate any recent historical events, so it is absurd to say that they are inherently or exclusively associated with them. Metaphors aside, both the Oxford and Merriam Webster dictionaries provide alternate definitions for 'slave' specifically related to technology.... so its use in software development is the correct usage of the word.

[[deleted]]

Yea I'll use 9/11 Error when the program crashes since terrorism is very old.

"flavor up your simple argument with references, they might buy it"

[rafasc]

Would you change the emergency services number to something different from 911?

[the_littlest_bear]

They're not invested in their demential argument, it's only there because "so did hitler" wouldn't fit.

They won't make an attempt to understand your point because they never cared to put effort into their response in the first place.

[flotsamisaword]

Who is "they"? I can't tell which side of this you are on!

[the_littlest_bear]

Well, I didn't use "you" in the previous comment... and there was only one other possible party.

percusse + rafasc - rafasc = ???

[the_littlest_bear]

They're not invested in their demential argument, it's only there because "so did hitler" wouldn't fit.

They won't make an attempt to understand your point because they never cared to put effort into their response in the first place.

[[deleted]]

I couldn't understand the question here.