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Developer Advocate at Weaviate, the open-source semantic search engine
Thanks for pointing out the Drupal thread, I've added that to the post.
Godwin's law, but I wonder if having an issue with a term that had one negative connotation 150 years ago seems, isn't about as smart as having an issue now with Germans in general because of what some of them did 80 years ago.
Dismissing 'master/slave' as something historical doesn't stand up to scrutiny though: legally imposed racial segregation was fairly recent history - even in the UK and US. These laws were intended to limit the prosperity and power of freed slaves and their descendants. It seems pretty clear to me that - one way or another - we have been restricting the freedom of these people ever since.
The German comparison is therefore nonsense: Germans are very well aware of their history and - in general - actively engaged in remedying their past mistakes. Whilst the UK and the US continue to perpetuate the myth that they're the good guys whilst being institutionally racist.
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Thanks for pointing out the Drupal thread, I've added that to the post.
Godwin's law, but I wonder if having an issue with a term that had one negative connotation 150 years ago seems, isn't about as smart as having an issue now with Germans in general because of what some of them did 80 years ago.
Dismissing 'master/slave' as something historical doesn't stand up to scrutiny though: legally imposed racial segregation was fairly recent history - even in the UK and US. These laws were intended to limit the prosperity and power of freed slaves and their descendants. It seems pretty clear to me that - one way or another - we have been restricting the freedom of these people ever since.
The German comparison is therefore nonsense: Germans are very well aware of their history and - in general - actively engaged in remedying their past mistakes. Whilst the UK and the US continue to perpetuate the myth that they're the good guys whilst being institutionally racist.