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Noah Slater commented on COUCHDB-2248:
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When it comes to American culture, it is impossible to disentangle slavery and
racism. The effects of slavery reach so far into the American psyche that I
expect it is an ever-present reality for most POCs. It really is not our place
as (mostly, on this thread) white Europeans to be deciding (based on logic)
what is and isn't a legitimate complaint. We lack the necessary lived
experience. The best we could hope for is to ask American POCs how they feel
about it. (Such a comment from an American POC is precisely what motivated the
original ticket, by the way.)
I am more sympathetic to the notion that a nomenclature change my introduce
confusion. But again, to talk about "established" terms in an industry which is
only a few decades old is clearly absurd. We are in the unique position of
being able to influence the world and leave it slightly better than when we
found it. I have no patience for feigned defeatism.
> Replace "master" and "slave" terminology
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> Key: COUCHDB-2248
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2248
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Bug
> Security Level: public(Regular issues)
> Components: Documentation
> Reporter: Noah Slater
> Priority: Trivial
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> Inspired by the comments on this PR:
> https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692
> Summary is: `master` and `slave` are racially charged terms, and it would be
> good to avoid them. Django have gone for `primary` and `replica`. But we also
> have to deal with what we now call multi-master setups. I propose "peer to
> peer" as a replacement, or just "peer" if you're describing one node.
> As far as I can tell, the primary work here is the docs. The wiki and any
> supporting material can be updated after.
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