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I can understand the master/slave thing as it does directly come from "slavery" so although I think it's stupid to change git I can see it being an issue. Not being from the US I never realized why the large bedroom in a house was called the master bedroom.

Changing blacklist and whitelist to allowlist and denylist is however stupid.

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Notice that “master” in the context of git has nothing to do with slavery. Master means the “reference” like “master” copy for CDs / Records that duplicates are made from.

Etymologicaly master comes from magister that also means expert / teacher. This is more apparent in some Latin languages like Spanish (I’m Spanish) where we have words like Maestro meaning teacher.

In Spanish Master copy translates to “Copia Maestra”. Nothing to do with slavery.

Most progressives in the US don’t know anything about this and / or conveniently ignore it.

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