From: "Fang-Pen Lin" <hello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Actually, I saw many blak people claimed they think this renaming "master" to "main" branch movement very offensive or even racist. Like this: Quote: https://twitter.com/Speedkicks/status/1272291128000167937 > Reading a thread of white people, including the CEO of GitHub, advocating changing the name of the "Master" branch to make black devs more comfortable... > is the most racially uncomfortable I've ever felt about GitHub. > Reasoning: Living as a black person is not to constantly remember how different you are but how different other people believe you are and how that changes your experience. > Now I can't even say "push to master" w/o the paranoia everyone around me's thinking about me being black. I am not a black person, but I also found this movement to be very offensive. As a person grew up in a country used to have language and thought policing, i.e. people could end up in jail or even got killed because they say something. In that environment, you are taught not to say any opinion at all even it has totally nothing to do with the sensitive topics, like the leader of the country. Sometime it could just because this word sounds like that, people could interpret the way they like it to be, report you to the government and you will disappear very soon. I found this renaming movement pretty much like that.
