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Re:GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row by amenod on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:29PM (#23531903)
> In slavery, the only correct thing for a master to do is to abdicate power, and it is not wrong for a slave to reject that power relationship.

Once that happens, they are no longer master and slave, of course.

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