linuxmasterrace

Thank you!!! dilute the hate!

You have a very good argument right there, thank you for enriching this discussion!

The inflationary use of these words leads to generalization in common usage and removes taboos from them. Of course, one could argue that this loses its initial "power". However, language changes very slowly and the terminology of the past remains. People will see you as people who see themselves above everyone else because of their operating system.

It also empowers Right Wing People and adopts narratives and disseminates ideas from that movement.

Small side info: In Germany, football clubs that would describe themselves as „master race“ would quickly end up on the list of enemies of the constitution, for the simple reason that it also attracts certain alt-rights, as I can see from this post.

The main problem with your argument is that this is not an e.g. racist insult, but a glorification. People are using faggot for themselves to fight the negativity of the word, but by using the word race, you will always recreate racism.

And while we're on the subject of Nazi words, we can also adopt other terms: how about „Windows concentration camps“? (It’s funny, Isn't it?)

Well then let’s just not talk about discrimination. Easy fix

Why do you think this using racist language is a non-issue?

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I'm not familiar with the history of the sub, could you elaborate a bit more please?

amen

Thank you for bringing up the other terminology issues, it really shows this is a bigger question than just one concerned person on the internet. I think it's good to question these terms so that the language may develop with greater intention and awareness. I noticed there is a knee jerk reaction to saying this is no big deal, but I think it would do us good to ask why we're so quick to excuse language that originates from racist ideals. Things likes discrimination and genocide all start with language, so why do we avoid the responsibility of moving away from these ideas? Just some food for thought.

And generally the consensus is that those terms should be depreciated. I know I make a point of renaming my default branch in git to main. The master/slave is harder to come up with an analagous term, but even main/sub would be easy enough to understand.

It's not a huge deal, and I think it's kind of funny that we use that term to lord over the console peons. But also thinking about it, isn't it just that? We can afford video cards that cost more than your console and a whole PC to go with it? In that sense, it is punching down and saying we are better because we can afford a more expensive system, right? Gets a little less funny.

I think it still works as a meme, but also, fuck those console peons and their "controllers" and "aim assist cause their controllers suck ass", but we should be cognizant of their feelings? Nah :-)

So don't subscribe to the community

Someone didn't think this through. Banning Master/slave oppresses the BDSM community. Well, it oppresses the Masters, at least. The slaves like a bit of oppression. It's their raison d'être.

Joking aside, language is what the speaker means and nothing else. You can say something to ten people and they'll all have their own interpretations. And they can all be wrong.

A classic a while back was some folk in Australia saying Captain Cook didn't discover Australia because indigenous people had been there for thousands of years. That isn't what discover means but it didn't stop many being offended.

I've discovered lots of things in my lifetime. It doesn't mean I was the first.

Same shit. Different problem. Abolitionism is not finished yet, my friends. And seen in this way, progressive progress has not yet come to an end. It's an ever evolving project.

It was an outdated comparison to use when the terms were coined, and really isn't justified in the grand scheme of using existing concepts to illustrate new ones.