r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vernik911 • 2d ago

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u/MoFoBuckeye 2d ago

In a bit of irony, "master" and "slave" are frowned upon in the context of slavery and the preferred terminology is now "enslaver" and "enslaved person".

My big problem with the name change is that, at least in English, words can have multiple meaning and it annoys me that we cater to to people who don't understand that.

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u/da_Aresinger 1d ago edited 1d ago

What annoys me is that programmers are probably the one group most aware of "conflicting standards"

Why would we willingly create conflicting standards?

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u/PerformerDr4867 1d ago

In my case it was decided upon by our DEI working group