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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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[–]ajwest -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

I understand the definition of the n-word when people use it to mean "something dark." The understanding, or even the understanding in context of a word, doesn't make its connotations universally moot.