I'm gonna defend the article from this claim (despite disagreeing with most people on this thread who see this article as some vindication of their victimhood mentality).
I think the article comes from a good place, if a bit out-of-touch. If you grow up in an area that has no overt racism (or no racism against your race and you don't notice it against other races) then it's possible for somebody (especially us pedantic and socially imperceptive nerds) to think that the "cure" (political correctness) is more frustrating than the disease.
Then hopefully you grow up, and realize that only a small part of the world is even a democracy, and that at least half the world is racist (e.g. apparently 30% of chinese were comfortable saying some races are better than others) [1]. Hopefully along the way you learn a little bit more about America too (even 1/20 Americans admitted to not believing in interracial marriage in 2021). [2]
But not everybody moves out of their hometown, or reads the news.
So people who disagree with you are all dumb hillbilly child nerds who don't read the news?
Putting aside the inflammatory name calling, your evidence for your position is China (not the place where English language hyperstitions are a problem), and that 5% of Americans answered that they don't believe in interracial marriage on a survey. But 5% is a trivial number and within the noise floor of surveys. Helpfully Scott Alexander has also written about that:
So where's the actual problem here? The west is not a racist part of the world, you selected the best numbers you could find for your case and they don't support that belief. The obsession with "racist" language isn't really anything to do with race. It's a power trip by nasty people who enjoy the feeling of taking part in and driving along these cascades.
Master-slave in distributed systems has as much to do with slavery as "click the mouse" has to do with animal torture. Get a grip. Language is full of words that have different meanings in different contexts, and computing especially so due to its reliance on metaphors.
I agree that it's not about actual slavery, but it goes deeper than that, and they were named that because the concepts do borrow the metaphor of slavery
I mean, the master controls the bus and the slave(s) have to listen to the master..
I first heard about master-slave with IDE drives in the early 00s, I think I was in 6th grade or something trying to put a second hard drive in my computer, and I remember it seemed racist to me at the time, soo I'm pretty sure it's occurred to lots of other people as well..
Shouldn't have to be invoking slavery just to learn some comp sci or computer engineering concept..
