XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On 8/6/24 12:38, D wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > On Tue, 6 Aug 2024, Sebastian wrote:   
   >   
   >> In comp.os.linux.advocacy tinker123  wrote:   
   >>> I can understand being annoyed by such a request.   
   >>>   
   >>> I probably would have put my annoyance aside and granted it.   
   >>>   
   >>> A few harmless search and replace operations.   
   >>>   
   >>> I think people overreacted to the request.   
   >>>   
   >>> It was a small request.   
   >>   
   >> It wasn't the request itself that elicited that response, but   
   >> its purpose: Bringing SerenityOS in line with the left's rules.   
   >>   
   >> Now they're accusing the developers of being SLAVE OWNERS   
   >> because they didn't go along with the earlier demand that   
   >> all projects rename their master branches. They still call   
   >> their master branches "master".   
   >>   
   >> They're cracking down on thought crime. What they're actually   
   >> offended by is that the developers don't find it offensive   
   >> to use "he" as the pronoun for a hypothetical person, and   
   >> they don't think there's anything wrong with the badspeak   
   >> word "master", which indicates that they haven't been   
   >> thinking what they were told to think.   
   >>   
   >> If anyone ever tells me to rename any of my projects' master   
   >> branches or else be branded RAYCISS, I'm renaming it to nigger.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Please do! Someone renaming their master branch to the nigger branch is   
   > worthy of donation solely for that act!   
   >   
   > When talking to extreme leftists I sometimes (when I'm in the mood) tell   
   > them that my pronoun is either master or negroe, and that they shall   
   > respect my pronoun. This is always a fun little exercise! =D   
      
   	Would not "main branch" confer the same status as the   
   "master" and if it was a feminist they will not insist on   
   "Mistress Branch". Related branched could be termed "child branches'   
   and  perhaps "cousin branches" but if you prefer your terminology   
   ignore anything anyone else has to say. If people get overly   
   insistent on their nomenclature then dissociate yourself from   
   them. Well if you are not an American-African then Negro might   
   do but call yourself what you please but Negro or Master   
   are not pronouns. So many people do publish their prefered   
   pronouns these days. I remember a few years ago the master-slave   
   designation for hard drives was the big kerfuffle.   
      
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