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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days ago

If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?

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If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days ago

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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just another way of staying ignorant and insensitive to those events.

I don’t really see how that follows. Would you mind elaborating?

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