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Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms (theregister.co.uk)
Python creator Guido van Rossum retired in July, but he's been pulled back in to resolve a debate about politically incorrect language. The Register reports: Like other open source communities, Python's minders have been asked whether they really want to continue using the terms "master" and "slave" to describe technical operations and relationships, given that the words remind some people of America's peculiar institution, a historical legacy that fires political passions to this day. Last week Victor Stinner, a Python developer who works for Red Hat, published four pull requests seeking to change "master" and "slave" in Python documentation and code to terms like "parent," "worker," or something similarly anodyne. "For diversity reasons, it would be nice to try to avoid 'master' and 'slave' terminology which can be associated to slavery," he explained in his bug report, noting that there have been complaints but they've been filed privately -- presumably to avoid being dragged into a fractious flame war. And when Python 3.8 is released, there will be fewer instances of these terms.
Dropping Master & Slave is an offense to Islamic cultures that regularly practice slavery right now!
Why can't we be more inclusive of Sharia law? Why are these pro-Trumpists trying to be islamophobic?!?!?
The bible also is pretty pro-salvery. Has instructions and all so I guess we can expect to see a good ol' christian defence to this.
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Equate people torn from their home, kidnapped across an ocean, and forced to work without pay often in deplorable conditions, treated as inhuman animals and sold as property with people who are unable to conceive children. Yup. Completely equivalent. Well done.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
It's kinda obvious that some people are uncomfortable with the terminology.
How difficult is it for pliable minds to simply adopt another set of words to describe, precisely, the same thing?
What motivation exceeds being polite?
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Check your priveledge, white man.
No, it hasn't. The master-slave analogy is derived directly from human slavery. If that's best Python's developers and technical writers can come up with, find different developers and writers. It's an asinine thing to argue about at this point in our evolution. Dump the terms.
This response illustrates why the language needs to change.
... snowflake ...
You're why all this matters.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
I am offended by our filthy excuse of a legal system, though.
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