You didn't identify by tribe. That's both weird and kinda-bullshit-sounding. Kind of like your post history at large. Also no person of color that wasn't white-passing and incredibly ignorant would say that skin-color was ever immaterial in this country. Grandfather? You sure you don't mean great-great-grandfather that makes you what, 1/16 ancestors of some tribe you couldn't even be bothered to remember the name of and 15/16 douchebag?

You could have said that about the establishment of the institution of white on black slavery in North America just before the Civil War.

You are not from Italy. You are from the US and you're a white nerd. I can tell, because of how much of a jackass you are. It is not the affluent white elite that have asked us to stop using these terms for DECADES. If you are not a white supremacist, please shut the fuck up and hold your head in shame now. Or maybe apologize. Wouldn't that be something?

Where is it you think any moderate would find common ground with a Trump supporter? And nobody wants you. There's no interest in owning MAGA, you racist little weasel. You cowardly jackass who is too stupid to understand basic precepts of liberty. You jerk.

I don't care about your boss. I care about all those black guys who had the balls to ask people to knock it off decades ago and we couldn't be bothered to change a few var names. These are tech people making these decisions, not PR.

You're an even bigger jerk for trolling this topic than you would be for being a simple basic evil jerk willfully standing on the wrong side of history. I have more contempt for you than I have for that asshole that ran over a girl in Charlottesville. You are a disgusting piece of shit and if it's not haunting you already, it will ultimately. Because I've known too many guys like you. You don't end well and you end alone.

Stop being an asshole. We don't have to use master/slave to describe relationships between two bits of architecture. Why does budging just a micron for this bother you so much? What's so hard about this?

They called them computers. Okay. They didn't see them as human maybe or they were impressed. Hard to say with a NASA-type or without context. Finger-cuff was also misapplied in a movie.

Not the same thing as not needing to use atrocity as an analogy for how things work in a system. That's weird. It hits home for black people. Where's the problem here?

Slavery is an atrocity. Genocide has also been around since the dawn of humanity. We don't:

rm -ethniccleanse

to delete a file structure.

That would be weird. It's equally weird to use master/slave for a relationship that is easily described through less atrocious analogues.

But why does the very idea of just not using this language for a tech-analogy bother you so much? This is low-hanging fruit. It's an easy win. It will put a lot of black tech folks less at unease, less unheard, less marginalized. Why does such a simple thing bother you so much? Inch then a mile maybe?

Forgive my JavaScript triple-equals but...

"white skin = racist. Got it." === isWhiteFragility

If you ignore a fact-based point in favor of your own that facts clearly don't agree with, then yes, I'd say you're a jerk. Everything that's wrong with us right now, in fact. We can have alternative PoVs on what's to be done about the facts or possibly what the facts mean, within fact-based-reason, but we can't have alternative facts or ignore concerns tied very directly to actual facts. That's killing us. Please stop.

You can't imagine hospital employees with nothing to do until their system gets fixed watching the screen as you reboot/restart stuff?

Only imagine the Germans weren't actually in a position to defend themselves when those names came about.

You wouldn't find it weird if instead of Create, Read, Update, Delete, you ran across march-to-work-camp, identify, work-hard, burn? I mean yeah, that's some more syllables but compare master/slave to boss/worker, delegator/executor, commander/subordinate - like how freaking hard is it to not use an atrocity as a tech analogy and how tone-deaf are you that it never bothered you the first time you saw it?

Nobody's purging the words from language. We're just acknowledging that human slavery is a painful enough atrocity that we should stop using it offhand as an analogy when there's perfectly understandable, less atrocity-sourced language we can use. If instead of CRUD we had Send-to-work-camp, Arbeit-macht-frei, Burn, wouldn't that throw you a little bit? Because the first time I saw Master/Slave it struck me as a bit callous and I was just a teen in a 99%-white suburb at the time.

And why do so many tech people have a problem with this? It's a low-hanging-fruit find/replace problem. Minimal effort and a large portion of us suddenly feel less unheard, less unequal, less marginalized, more apart of the team. What's the problem with that? Slippery slope? Good logic there, tech guy. Oh and that's kind of like saying, "Give them an inch..."

You should know better. In tech you either enjoy solving problems or you ultimately become a problem to be solved. This isn't hard. It doesn't hurt you. All you should need to hear about anything black and slavery-related is that it hurts them and be on board for some near-effortless wins.

Like think about it. Really think about it. Why is it so hard for so many of us to budge an inch on something so easy to change? Admin/worker. Mastermind/minion. Manager/subordinate. Delegator/executor. I'm not even trying that hard. Be a tech person. Solve the simple problems first and fast and stop bitching about it before you start to look like the very thought of making the slightest, easiest change for a potential black coworker's peace of mind bothers the !@#$ out of you.

Because it's not a good look on any of you. I'm disgusted by it.

I'd say it's a lot more of them being broke and having no prospects.