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Discussion on: Github is replacing the word master to avoid slavery references. Deal with it.

 
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Luke Inglis

It is only the people who try to bring race into the words which have no relation to race that are the problem.

Read up a little on race history. A lot of the justifications for treating dark skinned people poorly throughout history were based directly or secondarily on the whole dark = bad, light = good analogy.

The connotation that black has as a color is "bad" for example, a dark alley is considered a bad thing because it is dark/black.

Why not lightlist and darklist? On the list subject personally I approve the change regardless of any connotations because it's a switch to using words that actually describe the purpose of the list.