ZFS Removes References to Slavery
I will try to avoid controversy here and word this carefully: I can&#x27;t help but think that something is wrong in the minds of people who take offense at something like this. If in the context of programming and system administration, the term master&#x2F;slave is &#x27;offensive&#x27; and makes you think of racism, and one group of people being oppressed by another, your mind seems to make some completely different connections from mine.<p>Maybe I am not fine-tuned into &#x27;spotting&#x27; such things, which is the argument I would expect; but maybe some just have developed a sensitivity far beyond any reasonable amount in taking offense, which is my suspicion. How about we talk about meaningful ways to stop racism, which we can all agree is bad and unwarranted, jumping into action blindly might feel like you are doing something, but what exactly is this doing?<p>I am very annoyed by such blindly executed and in my opinion unwarranted activism, and as soon as one speaks out against, one has to hide from the incoming attacks. So I guess HR departments have to check naming conventions in programs now for misogyny &#x2F; politically non-correct &#x2F; possibly racist terminology before release?<p>By the way: I actually always thought of master &#x2F; slave as completely racially independent terminology in general? If in a book a white man were enslaved by some Asian tribe, how would master&#x2F;slave terminology be non-correct in describing the participants?