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On “master” and “slave” I could be convinced. Those are directly potentially offensive terms. They’re also terms that went out of use when we stopped using IDE drives 20-ish years ago as far as I’m aware, but there may still be specific fields where they’re used.

But to ban the word “black” because it was adopted by racists feels kind of ridiculous. Aren’t we giving these racists a little too much power?

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EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Master and slave are still used, like in brake cylinders I think.

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- Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The automotive field is just all kinds of insensitive… retarded ignition, tranny fluid, I’m sure there’s plenty more…
  
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Happenchance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
“White Good, Black Bad” is a pretty easy case to win when it comes to the “should we consider changing how we speak to not look like an asshole” debate.

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- Chee_Koala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It doesn’t seem easy to me, at all. Black/Dark also means night, shadow, invisible, while white infers light, visible, day. Lots of bad stuff happens in the shadow, and visa versa, and these themes are pretty universal throughout culture globally.
  
  I guess globally folks are fine with referring to skincolors as white or black (which is oversimplified IMO), but locally the names of colors of the rainbow and the colors of human skins are not the same. Just like real life, because a caucasian’s skin is not colored pure white, and a dark skinned person is not colored pure black. Language brought the two closer together, skincolors and absolute color, but they are not the same. If I read all the alternatives to white and blacklist, none of them are instantly recognizable to me. That’ll happen eventually, and is not a reason to never change it. But saying black = skincolor so using the word black for bad = bad seems too simple.
  
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  - Happenchance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    A whole lotta mental gymnastics going on in this thread.
    
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    Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Also known as thinking… I know, it’s hard.
    
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TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

They’re also terms that went out of use when we stopped using IDE drives 20-ish years ago as far as I’m aware

The flame war over this is still very much alive in electronics engineering for things like SPI buses.

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