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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.

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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

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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. ;)

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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
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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!

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