I didn't think of the word "master" being offensive in the context of Git branches until the issue came up a few months ago.
Once I became aware that some people are offended by the word "master" in this context, I immediately realized that I was blinded by my privilege, and I will henceforth name my branches with a new social consciousness.
That is, I was blinded by intellectual privilege: I had assumed that anyone smart enough to use Git would be smart enough not to care about this.
I will continue to name my own branches "master," and I have successfully convinced the organization I work for to do the same.
Before, I called branches "master" without any political intention at all. Now, I do so with an express political intention to demonstrate my explicit defiance of the censorious sort of people who insist that I must change my words because you might be offended by them.
Being upset about the name "master branch" is a completely ridiculous politicization of technology.
I'm thinking of downloading/buying and hoarding every mathematics and computer science textbook and paper I can find that uses the word "binary," since I'm sure they'll be banned soon due to being offensive to trans people, and someone ought to be preserving knowledge for when our society stops this insane witch-hunt and regains its sanity.
For posting this comment, I'm sure I'll be accused of being a racist, and stand a real risk of losing some karma.
I'm not a racist. The way I interact with people of all races is ethical, and gives me no trouble sleeping at night. I'm glad slavery ended long ago.
I'm simply taking a stand, in my own little way, against political correctness run amok.
Once I became aware that some people are offended by the word "master" in this context, I immediately realized that I was blinded by my privilege, and I will henceforth name my branches with a new social consciousness.
That is, I was blinded by intellectual privilege: I had assumed that anyone smart enough to use Git would be smart enough not to care about this.
I will continue to name my own branches "master," and I have successfully convinced the organization I work for to do the same.
Before, I called branches "master" without any political intention at all. Now, I do so with an express political intention to demonstrate my explicit defiance of the censorious sort of people who insist that I must change my words because you might be offended by them.
Being upset about the name "master branch" is a completely ridiculous politicization of technology.
I'm thinking of downloading/buying and hoarding every mathematics and computer science textbook and paper I can find that uses the word "binary," since I'm sure they'll be banned soon due to being offensive to trans people, and someone ought to be preserving knowledge for when our society stops this insane witch-hunt and regains its sanity.
For posting this comment, I'm sure I'll be accused of being a racist, and stand a real risk of losing some karma.
I'm not a racist. The way I interact with people of all races is ethical, and gives me no trouble sleeping at night. I'm glad slavery ended long ago.
I'm simply taking a stand, in my own little way, against political correctness run amok.