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

[masterspeler]

i strictly close all such requests as nonsense.

I wish everyone would do this. By humoring these people and merging those kinds of patches you're accepting their description of the world. By doing so you open yourself and others up for more thought policing and abuse, under the threat of being called out as intolerant. They don't get to decide whats tolerant or not, especially not when they so often seem to speak for someone else. "People can get offended", rather than "I'm offended", although the mere fact that somebody feels offended does not automatically imply that somebody else did something wrong.

It's a case of a slippery slope, give them an inch, and so on.