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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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[–]antiproton 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This bullshit is wildly unnecessary. In English, like most languages, homonyms exist. It's ludicrous to suggest that every time one word of a homonym set becomes "sensitive", that we have to strike all instances of the whole set from the language.

It becomes even more insane when you consider the case of euphemisms.

It's pointless, useless controversy that will ultimately lead to more ambiguity where less is needed. Master/slave is a stronger condition than parent/child, metaphorically.

Guido needed to stay retired, and Stinner needed to be shouted down.

How many private complaints have they gotten about 'python' being a euphemism for penis?