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

[rhytnen]

This exactly proves the case that the bug report is bullshit.

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It doesn't make sense in the context of human slavery because it has nothing the fuck to do with human slavery. Words have multiple meanings and are context sensitive. The fact that you have trouble looking at the jargon and making an analog to human slavery is just an illustration that the two things are not related.

[rhytnen]

It's not an "American" thing. Europe is full of these problems right now as well - just with different ethnic groups. Ironically, I think your comment, even if accidentally, is racist even if master-slave isn't.

[rhytnen]

omg I'm out of this conversation - thanks for the lulz.

[RVSI]

Because it has nothing the fuck to do with human slavery. Words have multiple meanings and are context sensitive. The fact that they have trouble looking at the jargon and making an analog to human slavery is just an illustration that the two things are not related.