On 2025-02-11 18:40, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
Am 11.02.25 um 11:36 schrieb Tomas Volf:
What are the benefits of changing the name of the master branch?
"master" is considered offensive for black people, because of centuries
of slavery - where the "master" was the suppressor.
Those you know me know that I'm all in for the inclusion etc. but I
honestly think this is too much.
We also execute programs (and we have many references to that word in
our docs), and some people I know had members of their family executed
because of their ethnicity or beliefs. I think all of us understand
those are two different meanings of the same word, and that's what the
dictionary says.
I also hold a masters degree but never enslaved anyone with it. We all
understand I didn't go to a slavery school, but an engineering school.
Master doesn't have an obvious derogatory meaning, and in Git there's no
slave. I would support this change if we had something called slave and
would like to change both words.
Also, why is this about black people specially? Which group of black
people specifically? All of them have been slaved? Are all of them
specially sensitive to words in the English language (which btw is
probably not the first language of most of us)?
Are we suggesting here that all black people are the same? Isn't that
more racist than the word "master" alone?
I think this is just a trend that got popular in the narrative in the
US, and they are trying to export it. The world is not the United States.
I know this is not the place to discuss this, but I found this rhetoric
very poor.
