[Cfp] Fwd: Re: [TCLCORE] branch no-master-slave

-- Pietro Cerutti On 15 Jul 2020, at 16:43, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny@gmail.com mailto:kevin.b.kenny@gmail.com> wrote: > I exaggerated slightly.  The case I had in mind was Los Angeles > County, California, in 2003, requesting that its vendors change the > terminology because it was racially offensive. It was initially > misreported as a mandate; the county subsequently clarified that it > was a request. Several vendors did indeed comply. > > Good terms for replacement depend strongly on context.  For Tk images, > which are the chief uses of the term that come to mind in our > published API, 'prototype' and 'replica' might be appropriate.  In > other contexts, 'initiator' and 'target', 'actor' and 'helper', > 'manager' and 'worker', or 'parent' and 'child' may be preferable. > > 'Slave' is nearly as offensive a term in certain circles of the US in > 2020 as 'leader' is in Germany. Your pointing out that > 'leader/follower' is a non-starter there proves that the choice of > words does indeed matter. > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 5:30 AM Dipl. Ing. Sergey G. Brester > <sebres@users.sourceforge.net mailto:sebres@users.sourceforge.net> > wrote: >> >> Nice claim, Kevin... >> >> You are surely able to prove your assertion with facts, and I mean >> some concrete case here. >> Because I'm really interesting which countries there are that >> prohibit the usage of this words by law in documents or source code. >> >> There are many alleged "world-improver" around doing a busywork by >> rummaging through a documents and writing critique, but please, don't >> defend it to me... >> Because mostly they did not write a single productive line by them self. >> Let alone such actions would not lead to something other as rewriting >> the history. And certainly will not help to fight against real racism >> and the oppression of minorities. >> >> Regards, >> Serg. >> >> Am 14.07.2020 18:52, schrieb Kevin Kenny: >> >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 8:05 AM Dipl. Ing. Sergey G. Brester via >> Tcl-Core <tcl-core@lists.sourceforge.net >> mailto:tcl-core@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> >> >> There are jurisdictions in which these words are prohibited by law in >> deliveries on government contracts. >> >> The law in question may or may not be silly pandering to the language >> police, but it remains the law. > > > > -- > 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin > > > _______________________________________________ > Tcl-Core mailing list > Tcl-Core@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:Tcl-Core@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tcl-core