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Stop creating problems where there are none. Homonyms exist, words have multiple meanings. A master is " a person who shows a lot of skill at something".

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...

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True, but why the shitshow with "master" in a number of git repos and other fields?

I know why. Virtue signalling. "Masters degree" is too hard to change.

> "Masters degree" is too hard to change.

Only if you don't care about the hurt it causes people every day.

Citation needed. US slavery ended in 1865, which means that nobody has (or knows) a living relative/person that was affected by it.

If you are unhappy because of that word, work on yourself.

> Homonyms exist, words have multiple meanings.

Homonyms can exist and this can still be tone deaf.

> Stop creating problems where there are none.

Since when is the consequences of slavery not a problem?

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