That's my stance as well. I thought the "master/slave" thing made some sense, it was very loaded vocabulary in what should be purely technical lingo. The whitelist/blacklist thing seems a lot less meaningful to me and a bit overzealous but... meh, who cares. The churn is fairly minimal anyway and fighting it would turn it into an even bigger deal which is not what I want.

At best it'll help some people feel respected and included, at worse it'll do... nothing at all.

I'm also happy to see some somewhat level-headed discussion on these topics on HN, lately every time that stuff was brought up the thread would descend into 4chan-lite immediately. Very embarrassing. Maybe it's because we're on a weekend and people are better rested.