> MASTER IS NOT INHERENTLY RELATED TO MASTER-SLAVE RELATIONS. 1) There is a great deal of evidence that that claim is simply not true. https://twitter.com/tobie/status/1270290278029631489 https://twitter.com/jpaulreed/status/1272064807345115137 2) It's beside the point. Many problematic words and phrases have perfectly benign origins, but take on new meanings in new contexts. I personally reject the kind of moral relativism that is being espoused here. In fact, I believe that there is such a thing as justice, and that we each have a responsibility to seek it out and create it in every corner of our activities, big and small. You can abdicate that responsibility, I can't force anyone to do otherwise nor would I want to. But history judges harshly those who would throw others aside. Of course there are more people in the world than just Americans. But there are also Americans, and in particular Black Americans. Precisely because git is the tool of choice for open source and so much other development work, I believe we have a responsibility to build a tool that reflects the values of _all_ that we want to welcome into these communities. If you would rather exclude Black Americans or others descended from generations of colonial slavery, that's your choice, but you need to own the fact that it is an inherently racist choice. Don Goodman-Wilson On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 2:20 PM Sérgio Augusto Vianna <sergio.a.vianna@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There's nothing to be resolved because there is no problem. If someone > reads "master" and gets triggered because all they can think of is > racism, that person needs therapy. >
