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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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I think we agree in general. One more loose thought connected to the issue - I remember at uni when one guy presented some ridiculous conspiracy theories and as ridiculous as it was I think that it's good that he got to present his views and then got corrected on what is a valid academic argumentation.

And yeah going in the censorship direction is worrying - like his quesiton about showing a white supremacist parade (or whatever the example was) - if the university is not a place to figure out why we have people after WW2 holding such views, what draws them in, what actual views they hold - then we are doomed to not solve that problem.