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		ogre_codes on July 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Red Hat to remove contentious terms like master an... > I'm sure an at-risk youth, when pulled over by two white police officers, is grateful that a bunch of highly paid programmers aren't subjected to politically incorrect variable names. Why would this affect anyone getting pulled over by the police? Neither the police, nor the motorist are going to be looking over source code. This is 100% about black developers. Have you bothered asking black developers how they feel about this?

dredds on July 7, 2020 [2 more]

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ogre_codes on July 7, 2020 | [–]

> Slaves were not only Black.

Good point. Slavery is terrible in all its forms. All the more reason this should be addressed.

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