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Re:V8 Release v8.6 by pantalaimon on Monday September 21, 2020 @05:43PM (#24548803)
I’m more concerned about my master degree
Re:V8 Release v8.6 by gruez on Monday September 21, 2020 @05:51PM (#24548862)
Or master copy, or master tradesman. All this "inclusive terminology" is really the puritanism of the 21st century.
Re:V8 Release v8.6 by crazygringo on Monday September 21, 2020 @05:55PM (#24548890)
I don't think anyone is proposing that the verb "to master" or noun "master" (original, or expert) is problematic.

It's only when used in the separate sense specifically opposite "slave".

There's no need to caricature or misrepresent the POV that you obviously disagree with here.

Re:V8 Release v8.6 by gruez on Monday September 21, 2020 @06:07PM (#24548988)
> I don't think anyone is proposing that the verb "to master" or noun "master" (original, or expert) is problematic.

you clearly missed https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1271253144442253312

Re:V8 Release v8.6 by crazygringo on Monday September 21, 2020 @11:34PM (#24550574)
You know... as soon as I wrote "I don't think anyone" I thought to myself... well surely some single individual somewhere probably actually has... and someone will find it for me.

So thanks. ;)

Re:V8 Release v8.6 by sexpositivepriv on Monday September 21, 2020 @09:22PM (#24549982)
It is. Plenty of people are renaming the "master" branch in git to something else even though it has no relation to master/slave
Re:V8 Release v8.6 by robertlagrant on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @02:32AM (#24551550)
Yeah - that's exactly like "master recording".

Countering slavery is hard. Let's go renaming!

Re:V8 Release v8.6 by rvz on Monday September 21, 2020 @10:35PM (#24550331)
Better not use a debit card with an 'oppressive' Mastercard logo on it. /s

Which means Monzo, Apple, Starling, N26 and Revolut are all 'complicit' with working with Mastercard to continue to oppress the offended. Time for a rename. /s

Re:V8 Release v8.6 by rad_gruchalski on Monday September 21, 2020 @07:30PM (#24549489)
And what do we do with Master of Puppets?