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Re:Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing v... by hallway_monitor on Thursday September 30, 2021 @09:07PM (#28713308)
I still can't get over this. The word master has like 10 definitions and because one of them is part of a distasteful part of history that has nothing to do with the way it was used in this context, they inconvenience everyone.
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Re:Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing v... by saba2008 on Friday October 01, 2021 @05:35AM (#28716341)
>is part of a distasteful part of history

...of one of the english speaking countries

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Re:Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing v... by MadeThisToReply on Friday October 01, 2021 @07:23AM (#28717004)
I think you mean "of literally every country in the entire world".
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Re:Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing v... by tgv on Friday October 01, 2021 @07:55AM (#28717288)
I don't like taking things literally, but in this case that would be necessary, as it's the whole point. "Master" is an English word. If it isn't, "main" is primarily translated to "haupt" in German, and we all know what a Haupttruppführer was, so that should go too, as should every other word that possibly has a negative connotation somewhere in the world.
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Re:Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing v... by arthurcolle on Friday October 01, 2021 @10:34AM (#28718963)
Minitru is hard at work yeet'ing all the double-plus-ungood words out of the lexicon for sure
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