alt Hacker NewsAt some point virtue signaling is fixing symptoms of the problem. Always had a problem with master slave terminology happy to see it gone.
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> virtue signaling is fixing symptoms of the problem
It diminishes the seriousness of the entire anti-racism movement by making it look petty, out of touch and more interested in creating nuisances than solving real problems. The San Francisco school board got fired for doing similar nonsense during COVID, renaming schools and thus showing they weren’t serious people.
Can you, perhaps, cite your own pre-2020 writing attesting to the problem, and explaining why it should be considered a problem?
Do you consider that using the name "master" for a branch tends to endorse or normalize slavery, or (even stochastically) increase the amount of slavery that occurs in the world?
If so, how?
If not, why is it actually a problem to reference the concept (even disregarding the evidence that it was not intended to do so)?
You'll be happy to know in the context of a "master branch" it never had any connotation to slavery, except in the minds of people who see everything as a question of race*
Anyway I'm off to listen to the 50th anniversary Dark Side of the Moon remaster. Wait, is "dark" an okay word? I didn't get a master's degree in English
* Parallel ATA on the other hand, yeah, yikes