It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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    unfair treatment.

    We’re talking about slavery here.

    sick of having to relabel

    It’s not that hard…to be accommodating.

    divorced from the social issues

    from your point of view

    the code doesn’t care

    You’re right. Call it a controller and agent. I know naming is hard, but we’re smart enough to apply our lexicon.

    never use the words master or slave ever again? What’s next??

    Ah, the slippery slope fallacy.

    We still use master over main

    The default for new repositories on GitHub has been main for awhile now. You would have had to put in effort to change it to something else. You’re a stick in the mud.

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      The default for git repositories is still master. Not to be the “real programmers only use CLI” guy, but I feel like git init isn’t too hipster.

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      Fuck I don’t get your downvotes, you’re right. I get people want to vent but in the greater scheme of things having to use different words to be a smidge more inclusive isn’t that big of a deal or effort considering what some of us do to help our friends be accepted.

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        It’s so weird that so many people are calling being accommodating in such a small way “performative” or whatever! I think some people just can’t handle change and blame others for it.

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          or it’s just literally performative and doesn’t actually change anything about the realities of being POC in America other than making (ironically) a bunch of white people feel good about themselves.