Comment by HNisCIS

21 hours ago

Soooo it's fine to name all your variables slurs then? Like, yes, hyperbolic, but the contention was that the SWE community is overwhelming cis while het dudes from the US and we were making it unwelcoming to anyone else.

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JumpCrisscross  20 hours ago

> it's fine to name all your variables slurs then?

Hyperbole. Renaming “master” directories was a total circlejerk endeavor by the same crowd that came up with Latinx.

fwipsy  20 hours ago

I haven't met anyone who is actually uncomfortable with the term "master," only people concerned about what others might think of them. It's not really being inclusive; it's just signaling inclusivity. Surely the time would be better spent, I don't know, volunteering to tutor underprivileged students or something? Or just living your damn life.

  • simulator5g  16 hours ago

    I have met several people who are uncomfortable with the 'master/slave' terminology. In my experience, those who do not experience much racism in their day to day lives do not find it offensive, and vice versa. Therefore, it is at least slightly offensive in my opinion.

    Once I was explaining how my day went to an ex, and my day happened to involve the terms, and they were absolutely floored that those terms were still used. Then the whole conversation was about racism in tech, and that had significantly less aura than my story of how I fixed everything. Beware ye olde words, lest ye scare thein hoes.

866-RON-0-FEZ  20 hours ago

> Soooo it's fine to name all your variables slurs then?

Except that never happened. It's fantasy.

What did happen was words like "black hat" and "white hat" got re-classified as hateful language.

I'm actually surprised the conference was spared by the mob.