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Signed-off-by: Karin Athanas <[email protected]>
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I'd like to hold off on this until the replacement term review process is looked over and implemented, if that's okay. |
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| The underlying assumption of the whitelist/blacklist metaphor is that white = good and black = bad. | ||
| Because colors in and of themselves have no predetermined meaning, any meaning we assign to them is cultural: for example, the color red in many Southeast Asian countries is lucky, and is often associated with events like marriages, whereas the color white carries the same connotations in many European countries. | ||
| In the case of whitelist/blacklist, the terms originate in the publishing industry – one dominated by the USA and England, two countries which participated in slavery and which grapple with their racist legacies to this day. |
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If countries will be named, use "the United Kingdom" instead of "England".
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These lines are deleted in this pull request, no need :)
| @@ -75,19 +95,19 @@ Master/slave are not welcoming words. | |||
| * [IETF Network Working Group: Terminology, Power and Oppressive Language](https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-knodel-terminology-00.html) | |||
| * [django/django PR #2692](https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692) | |||
| * [Python issue #34605](https://bugs.python.org/issue34605) | |||
| * [Drupal issue](https://www.drupal.org/node/2275877) | |||
| * [Drupal issue](https://www.drupal.org/node/2275877) | |||
| * [COUCHDB-2248](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2248) | |||
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| ## Master | |||
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| In computing, A “master” often refers to the original or main version of an entity. | |||
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| While master in and of itself is potentially neutral, the propensity in which it is associated with the term slave in computing makes master on its own guilty by association. Though it is used as a standalone, it's impossible to remove the association with command and control entirely, and thus we recommend moving away from even singular use. |
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Use "stand-alone" as an adjective.
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| While master in and of itself is potentially neutral, the propensity in which it is associated with the term slave in computing makes master on its own guilty by association. Though it is used as a standalone, it's impossible to remove the association with command and control entirely, and thus we recommend moving away from even singular use. |
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What about "master" in the context of mastery of a skill?
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Co-authored-by: Karsten Wade <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Karsten Wade <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Karsten Wade <[email protected]>
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Signed-off-by: Karin Athanas [email protected]