alt Hacker NewsSo they didn't remove it, they just renamed it? Reminds me of that time we fixed racism by renaming the master branch to main.
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Glant • today at 5:09 PM
At least Comcast isn't the company with the worst customer support now, we can give that honor to Xfinity
shye • today at 8:44 PM
People who claim the goal of changing the common terminology was to abolish or discourage racism are an example of why we are still having such prevalent racism all around.
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Barbing • today at 4:38 PM
Maybe comparing <the sum total of annoyance from reading the old name> to <the current sum total of annoyance reading the current name>, it was a positive direction overall?
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Slavery. It was meant to fix slavery.
Rasism was fixed by not using black- and whitelists on firewalls. Separate endeavour.