Re: Proposal: Replace all references to master/slave in GNOME modules

[mcatanzaro gnome org]

On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 12:22 AM, Tristan Van Berkom 
<tristan vanberkom codethink co uk> wrote:
> We should also not show favoritism of one set of cultural values over
> another, I feel that censorship to this degree is a very western
> concept which we should not lend any credit to. Ask has already 
> pointed
> out that the possible offensiveness of the word 'master' on it's own 
> is
> even more particular to the USA, I cannot speak to the veracity of 
> this
> but I do suspect that this is pandering specifically to US
> sensitivities, which I also do not agree with.

It's not a "US sensitivity," it's really not. I assure you this 
proposal is wildly farfetched by US standards. I know it is intended as 
a serious proposal, but it reads more as joke or parody and as such 
it's really, really hard to take seriously.

Michael