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by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 37)

GitHub's replacement of master branch with main (2020)

 ... Scientific method Social science Social norm Political correctness Ridiculous cases of political correctness censorship Replacement of master and slave terminology from technology
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By GitHub around Black Lives Matter, due to a possible ludicrous relationship with slavery of black people:
  • www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-replace-master-with-main-starting-next-month/
  • github.com/github/renaming
For the love of God, the word "master" is much more general than black slavery. If you are going to ban it, you might as well ban the word "evil".
Several software projects followed the purge from their codebases, maybe GitHub followed someone else's lead, it's hard to say.
The words "whitelist" and "blacklist" were also targeted.

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