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