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✊ woke - Check for insensitive language in your source code

Caitlin Elfring on October 12, 2020

Adopting Inclusive Language in Tech It's 2020 and it seems the tech industry is finally coming to terms with the outdated, racially inse...
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K. Russell Smith

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you missed some. Seriously though, are you aware that the terms "master" and "slave" are racially neutral? The concept of slavery goes back thousands of years (every race can claim to have been enslaved, in fact the term "Slav" comes from the Romans keeping eastern Europeans as slaves). This feel-good virtue signalling is not going to do anything to solve any actual problem, rather it's going to make the tech industry a complete laughing stock. Otherwise, neat analyzer program.