Replace "master/slave" terminology with "primary/replica"
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Personally, my political naming pet peeve is with *Manager classes, they're generally a sign of poor naming / architecture. Maybe the employee class doesn't need the EmployeeManager for every operation, just sayin...
No one implements "master/slave" database replication and then thinks human slavery is socially acceptable.
You can't avoid ever offending someone, but in this case you can reduce the amount of offence caused by a small but significant amount at basically no cost.
rep·li·ca [rep-li-kuh] noun 1. a copy or reproduction of a work of art produced by the maker of the original or under his or her supervision. 2. any close or exact copy or reproduction.
Things we would call replicas cannot exist without an original. But you're right, there's no control involved in the word. Could you please explain how replication involves a primary controlling replicas, or perhaps how the absence of a controlling primary node matters?
It's not particularly convincing.
The newer usage is not needed and could easily be changed to other better words.
If the reply is fallacious, then show that it's fallacious. If it is fallacious then it shouldn't be used as an argument irrespective of whom it's aimed it. If the reply doesn't contain some logical flaw, then it simply doesn't matter whether its opponent is black or white or anything else: neither truth nor logic are subject to whether people like them.
Truth an logic are only one dimension of communication. Why would you choose a more offensive way of saying something over a less offensive way?
I could take offence by the limited perspective you put on the word relating it to only African Americans, there are many from Europe who fall in the sex slavery trade who are not black.
In Australia the word 'root' has sexual connotations, so if I was to work on your team would you be happy to change this word, so no more root access, root directory, if I said it was offensive ?
Words can be offensive, but generally they are offensive because of the context. For example, should it be offensive for me to say the night sky is black, black is an offensive word but it is also a valid contextual description.
I am not speaking hypothetically, I am asking about how someone else would feel and respond in a situation I have experienced directly.
Can you explain how my perspective is 'limited'?
It seems to me that you have simply misunderstood the question.
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/178799/did-slave-...
The OED has an example of "slave" being used for mechanical devices in 1904. So while this usage is much more modern than the 9th century origin of the word it's not something that has been invented by computing.
[1] I should have asked something like "When did 'slave' evolve to include devices?"
Hilarious comment on the drupal issue - why not to use replica:
"In the name of all replicants, I protest the use of the word 'replica' in such a demeaning way. You wouldn't believe what we've suffered already... I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those... moments... will be lost in time, like tears... in... rain."