[RandomGuyDTB]

I don't really see how master/slave is such a controversial issue in the computing community. The name change doesn't really affect anything either way, so if it makes people feel more welcome to the field I don't see much wrong with that, but of all things do we really need to go after terminology?

I should quickly edit this to make my stance more clear. Slavery is bad and America should be ashamed for its past. But slavery as an institution is older than the racist Western implementation of "Africans are property". I feel like the implication behind changing the master/slave terminology is that the people who decided to use these terms were racist (which may be true) when they were probably just using the terms that made the most sense to them. At the end of the day, I'll use the new naming conventions whenever I write relevant code and I'll use them gladly. But we're bickering about names right now when Black people are getting shot by cops in broad daylight.