I don't think that guy had any reason to point out the "master" thing, but now that we're down here, I don't think that version control has any context of slavery, segregation, or ongoing institutionalized oppression. Glad to be proven wrong though.

I get abandoning master/slave terminology, but on its own the word "master" has nothing to do with slavery.

In general, I get being sensitive towoard ongoing social injustice, but on the other hand I want to be careful not to fall victim to a 4chan psyop baiting people into irrational levels of "wokeness".

My workplace recently recommended against using the terms "tipping point" and "chop chop" without giving any context. I had to google them to find out why they were problematic. Turns out that "chop chop" and "chopstick" have the same (possibly insensitive) origin. But I don't know what else to call a chopstick! Luckily they didn't ban it...for now...

I'm not saying this whole "master" thing was "masterminded" by anyone, but if I were a troll with nothing better to do but "own the libs", I would spend my time coming up with ways to cancel random things by linking them to racist pasts. Which would be pretty easy because, turns out, everything that existed 100+ years ago probably had a run-in with overt racism.