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It's better to stick to tried and true terminology that everybody understands than to needlessly introduce new and redundant designations for concepts that have been in use for decades, just to avoid upsetting rather irrational American sensibilities.

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Leader/follower and primary/replica are common terminology now. It's unfair to paint the sensibilities as irrational - this is exactly an example of the kind of nonchalance that helps lead to underrepresentation of minorities in tech.

You might not care, but there are a lot of people that do. Taking steps like this improves the comfort level others while affecting yours none. Why is that not worth it?

Primary/replica is also _much clearer about what's actually going on_ than master/slave.

So now we have three pairs of terms that apparently mean exactly the same thing. I'm sure that whatever "minorities in tech" are more interested in not being needlessly confused, than not seeing the word "slave". Who would even think of this in terms of human slavery, and why would it be connected to american minorities only?

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