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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've often said "What do we want? Police to face accountability when they commit crimes! What do we actually get? We're going to use the term 'main' instead of 'master' for programming things!"

The other thing is that the big stuff is shored up by all the small stuff.

The reason you can't get police held accountable for crimes, ferinstance, is because there's a hundred shitty racist / sexist / classist / etc attitudes locking down the idea that the police are both besieged by and protecting us from an underclass of people who deserve neither compassion, rights or justice. Look at the people leaping on the 'he was no angel' bandwagon, for god's sake.

If you want to topple the big overt heinous idea, you need to wash away the soil its roots are sunk into and that's banked up round its trunk making it look like an inherent part of the landscape.

A spoonful at a time, if need be. It all helps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Interesting metaphor. I've never really gotten that idea -- I've never seen the connection demonstrated between the "big stuff" and seemingly innocuous things like 'main' vs. 'master'.

Also, a lot of this feels misplaced. IMO, the root problem is one of attitude where the minorities are viewed as less-human, not deserving of equal treatment or equal rights. Change will happen as those attitudes shift. I haven't seen a connection demonstrated between those attitudes and...well, pretty much any terminology issue that's come up in recent memory.