It's actually even worse. It is enough for research to not actively promote "social justice" (which is of course anything but social or just) to get the boot.

So everything must be politicised. "How does your new caching algorithm promote social justice?". (If the same criteria were applied in CS).

> If the same criteria were applied in CS

And this will be here before you know it unless more people start calling bullshit.

I already can't commit to a master branch or have a master key, because reasons.

It’s probably time for Master Lock to change their branding as well

> It must be so difficult being so offended by the regular function of language. Context matters in language, and meanings and vocabulary change over time as contexts change.

The sheer irony of someone who's in favor of linguistic prescriptivism typing this out (when master record and master key have no linguistic relationship to master/slave) is astounding.

It seems to me that the real snowflakes are those who got out of their way to have the convention changed. But then again, I am just a slav who thankfully doesn't have to live in the shithole that is contemporary usa (or the valley).

"Snowflake?" Either you're projecting, or that doesn't mean what you think.

Don't forget that there were people like Rich Salz who took their ball and ran home crying[0] because of a freaking word. Was this just a fit of temporary 2020-insanity that was going around? Nope - apparently 1 year on, it's still intolerably reeecist to have a "master key" in cryptography.[1]

[0] https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/1279190119703085057 [1] https://twitter.com/RichSalz/status/1435327330335997952

Are you offended when someone expresses that they want to "master the art of pasta making?" The word 'master' has many meanings, only one of which relates to slavery; every color of people on the planet has practiced slavery at some point; your boogeyman white people stopped practicing it a century and a half ago; yet just the existence of the word prevents you from being able to push code to a repo. And you call other people snowflakes...

pledge allegiance to the Geocentric astronomical worldview if you want to get credentialed, study, apply for tenure/a job, etc.

This is a funny anachronism and the very opposite of science.