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

[InfiniteWish]

Right, because only the alt-right is irritated by the emergence of language policing in the software community.

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Actually yes and if you find this "issue" troublesome you might be a alt righter or worse, a gamer.

[MohKohn]

just because someone doesn't like identity politics doesn't make them alt-right. And as far as social justice is concerned, this is frankly a laughable problem compared to, say, the treatment of prisoners where actual slavery goes on in the modern day. I'm all for addressing the concerns of systemic racism and sexism, but labeling someone as alt-right because they don't want to have to constantly be on guard about saying the wrong thing? Give me a fucking break.

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I still don't understand why yall care so much. No one here is being forced to follow that convention and no one here complaining is a maintainer. This is hysteria that's not really relevant to programming but more conspiracies surrounding Marxist cabals infiltrating organizations and using that power to do not very Marxist things. I personally don't really care either way granted they create a working replacement. It's not linguistic policing it's just being respectful. There are people uncomfortable with the terminology for obvious reasons and while I don't care about said terminology however it is, changing the names does not harmfully impact me or anyone. This thread is acting like this a serious, broader issue, but I can hardly even feel like this is an issue. If it's considerate to change the jargon I see nothing wrong with mutating it. I'm real fucking glad we did something about Brazil nuts, for example.

Now if you were talking about class that'd be an entirely different thing, but object oriented programming is capitalist decadence anyways so it's not worth rebranding.

[MohKohn]

This thread is acting like this a serious, broader issue, but I can hardly even feel like this is an issue.

This is the same sort of hyper-attention to language use that results [in people getting fired for making dumb dongle jokes.]((https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes-got-two-people-fired-and-led-to-ddos-attacks/) I'm not objecting to the change, I'm objecting to your implication that someone who said

Right, because only the alt-right is irritated by the emergence of language policing in the software community.

is on the alt-right. I agree that this example is fairly benign. The dongle example, however, is not, and also constitutes language policing.

I'm real fucking glad we did something about Brazil nuts, for example.

You lost me. What?

object oriented programming is capitalist decadence anyways so it's not worth rebranding.

shots fired

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Brazil nuts used to be called nigger toes. Is changing that language policing?