[spikeseltzer]

What’s an example of a real issue, if changing terminology to make underrepresented engineers feel less uncomfortable isn’t one?

[627467]

Are you implying that only non-underrepresented engineers are capable of uncomfortable speech?

I'm sure any terminology can make some engineer (underrepresented or not) uncomfortable. Therapy may help if it becomes recurrent and hard to manage.

I'm pretty sure most engineers, underrepresented or not, would appreciate a healthy, dignifying and diverse management structure and workplace so that uncomfortable language not only is less likely to naturally happen, but when it does happen everyone (underrepresented or not) is adult enough to know if a line was crossed.

I'm pretty sure that underrepresented groups would prioritize stopped being randomly killed, be evicted, be massively encarcerated, be without healthcare and be in a constant dog-eat-dog environment.

[Yetanfou]

I have yet to hear from an under-represented engineer who felt uncomfortable from the use of the term master in git and github. I have heard a number of activists claim this to be the case but judging by the reactions from those who supposedly were to feel uncomfortable - some of them right here in this thread - this was a non-problem and the change is purely theatrical.