For the sake of hearing out all sides, who is offended by this name? For those who are offended, what would be less offensive names?
If slave is taken out of context, minion seems just as easy to be taken out of context. I'd really love to hear from someone actually offended what we can do to make the project less so. On Tuesday, June 2, 2015, Connor Doyle <[email protected]> wrote: > James, I'll just say one thing: > > The proposed change is for the benefit of those who _do_ have a problem > with the current name. > > Of course you are free from having to empathize, but why block the change > if there is support? > Finding out if there is wider support is the purpose of this thread. > > -- > Connor > > > > On Jun 2, 2015, at 11:43, CCAAT <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > > On 06/02/2015 11:58 AM, craig mcmillan wrote: > >> not being from a slavery oppressed minority i'm not in a position to > >> offer an opinion on the experience of the use of 'slave' in CS > >> terminology, and the definition of 'minion' doesn't seem overly more > >> empowering > >> > >> however : > >> > >> dom / sub > >> > >> is more fun and a little bit cheeky > >> > >> :c > > > > > > Ah. The nightclub scene is more salient; so Berlin is your favourite > city? What if the roles reverse; how does that map to mesos, clustering or > parallel efforts? For humorous reasons, I like > > Mommy --> daddy so as to promote females to participate in mesos? > > > > > > > > I say all of this, as my grandfather, who later on in life became > > a pharmacist and drug store owner, was a slave in his youth. I find it > none offense. The only thing I find offense is those not willing to fight > to overcome their circumstances. As an over educated person, I find the > entire historical education experienced much more offending than something > that has existed in every culture that is more than a few hundred years > old. For me, obtaining education and then social status, from elites, is an > ugly process. Now, here in the USA, we > > have graduates in debt up to there eyes and often no jobs. You want to > address a social-ill, why not just get rid of "tenure" and put the > pedantics on the same hire-fire master-slave relationship graduates are > under? The past is just that; the past, learn from it and move on. Take > > actions about TODAY and tomorrow. Stop wallowing in the self pitty of > what other did hundreds or thousands of years ago! > > > > > > WE still have wage-slaves, sex-slaves and many forms of human traffic > that are or are very, very close to slavery. Try to show your independence, > as part of a military collective; commander-slave. > > > > How about elite-slave? politician-slave? Ivy_league--community_college > > for names? > > > > > > As a solution, why don't we make these relationships 'user defined > variables'? Surely that would be great fun and prepare us for supporting > languages such as Haskell in a fun and ambitious function > > sort of way? [1] > > > > > > > > James > > > > [1] > http://lesswrong.com/lw/k1o/botworld_a_cellular_automaton_for_studying/ > > > > -- Text by Jeff, typos by iPhone
