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> I dare you to find European devs who believe terms slave and master in tech context are offensive and should be replaced.

Oh, hello, I'm a European dev and I'm making a concerted effort to remove those terms both from my vocabulary and any code / tickets / documentation I come across.

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And why would you do anything like that? To pamper to American counterparts? if you really are a Euro, you're brainwashed by American identity politics. Too bad they leak over the ocean.

> To pamper to American counterparts?

I think you'll find that the Americans don't have the only legacy of slavery to be worried about - they just kept it going longer than most. As a British person, I've got more than enough historical shame about slavery to make me want to avoid those terms.

There's no reason to be ashamed of, it's history. You didn't take part of it. By that standards, the whole world should be morning out of shame. There is no country that becomes one without violence, that is how the countries were born. Hence every citizen of each country should be ashamed of x.

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