Somewhat disheartening to see all the arguments here saying it doesn't matter how we name stuff. Lived language creates reality.

There are groups of black people that complained about the terminology, repeatedly [1]. So isn't it arrogant as a white dude to say, this thing hurts you, and we could easily change it, but fuck you we won't do it because we have always done it that other way?

Some easy no effort replacements:

- master-slave -> leader-follower

- blacklist -> denylist

- whitelist -> acceptlist

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%E2%80%93slave_(technolo...