https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-knodel-terminology-02.html

Note that parent/child is not part of the suggested list of alternatives, if you want to take that into consideration.

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> 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> 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


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