That is not why it’s called that: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...
Slave is never used once in git documentation, never has been and never will be: https://git-scm.com/search/results?search=slave
Ultimately this is a digression; this change is being made not because of the intentions of the authors of git, but to be considerate of users of GitHub.
Which users?
That tweet is from the original creator who made "master" the default branch in git.