On July 13th, we asked the community for your opinion if you would like to change the name of this community.
Results of the Survey :
Yes - 28.1%
No - 71.9% (winner)
Of the 1,201 responses received, we as a community have democratically decided that we should not change the name from PC Master Race. I am grateful to our community for your input, as this was a difficult topic to navigate together.
We'll pin this post for some time and then consider adding a bullet into the sidebar for this Community to help stave off further discussions around this topic as the community has already decided collectively.
The word "Master" isn't exclusively tied to slavery and to deem it offensive on those grounds pretty much guarantees you're American and have an understanding of history that makes any actually educated person want to vomit.
A Master branch, like a master copy of a recording, is the reference copy against which others are measured, it's not a master in the sense of ownership but in the sense of benchmarking, like a master of a craft.
This. And even if it were a matter of control, 'master' is a valid terms for that. It is perfectly fine for one piece of technology to utterly control another. It is not fine to do that with humans.
Cutting out the vocabulary just makes it so that when we run into a real situation, we feel like we can't talk about it.
I will keep vocabulary, and keep history, because that's how we know the reasons for the ways we've changed. Blotting things out of our conceptual vocabulary just makes the next generation susceptible.
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What do we want? An end to blatant racist murders by police!
What do we get? Rename our git branches!
Why not both?
Cause one of the two is fucking stupid.
The word "Master" isn't exclusively tied to slavery and to deem it offensive on those grounds pretty much guarantees you're American and have an understanding of history that makes any actually educated person want to vomit.
A Master branch, like a master copy of a recording, is the reference copy against which others are measured, it's not a master in the sense of ownership but in the sense of benchmarking, like a master of a craft.
This. And even if it were a matter of control, 'master' is a valid terms for that. It is perfectly fine for one piece of technology to utterly control another. It is not fine to do that with humans.
Cutting out the vocabulary just makes it so that when we run into a real situation, we feel like we can't talk about it.
I will keep vocabulary, and keep history, because that's how we know the reasons for the ways we've changed. Blotting things out of our conceptual vocabulary just makes the next generation susceptible.
They could at least uhh idk not contract with ice or other law enforcement if they wanted to show support