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Discussion on: How do you feel about changing naming terms?

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Michael Cain

Yes, the terminology needs to change. I don’t think anyone disagrees with that.

What I do think gets tiresome is the histrionics that attend these conversations. I find it awfully hard to believe that someone is going to be going about their merry way in TechVille and gasp drops dead or immediately quits their job because of such a “micro-aggression”. The virtue signaling gets really old.

We should change it in part because primary/replica, for example, is a clearer term for what it actually is, as well for cleansing a term that refers to a terrible human institution.