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[Alexandr Kovalenko]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 18:04 Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org> wrote:

> On 2020-06-21 18:54, Alexandr Kovalenko wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 5:41 PM Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org>
> wrote:
> >> On 2020-06-21 18:11, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> >>> On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 06:01:40PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> >>>> On 2020-06-21 17:53, Alexandr Kovalenko wrote:
> >>>>> I wonder should we also rename Master's Degree? Would you throw
> >>>>> away yours?
> >>>>> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/master
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't see a problem if you have a main computer degree.
> >>>
> >>> *facepalm*
> >>
> >> If you got a Master's degree in South Africa under Apartheid, to many
> >> people that is still symbolic.
> >>
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid#Education
> >>
> >> Apartheid is not very long ago and the people that experienced this are
> >> still alive.
> >
> > How is this relevant?
> >
> > Please let me know when you will find "slave boot record". Until then
> > - please revert the commit.
>
> Because the people I am referring to never got a chance to write any
> boot loader at school.
>

And? How this is relevant? How this changes the fact that in "master boot
record" word master has no relation to slavery?



> >
> > Also, I would recommend you educating yourself on the meaning of the
> > word "context".
>
> I didn't steer this commit discussion into the "Master's degree".
>

To show you that you should consider the context. Master boot record, as
well as master's degree, as well as many-many other usecases have no
relation with slavery.

Otherwise I would suggest you to write a letter to Oxford to completely
remove word "master" from English language along with the letter to your MP
to introduce a law which would make using word "master" punishable by
death.

I really feel the pain people feel about slavery and completely support
them, but right here right now you are not helping, you are doing quite
opposite.


> >>>> Actually you have a very good point. Didn't think of that yet. I
> >>>> should be more proud of my Bachelor's than my Masters's apparently.
> >>>
> >>> Hans, if you wanted to make reductio ad absurdum, that point is seen.
> >>> Now, please revert the commit.  We are *already losing developers*
> >>> because of all this shit and it must be stopped.  This is definitely
> >>> not the right time to make such changes in such manner, leaving alone
> >>> the need for the changes per se.
> >>
> >> Really?
> >
> > Trying to be funny does not add you more credibility.
> >
>
> --HPS
>