Python joins movement to dump 'offensive' master, slave terms (opens in new tab)

As I was familiarising myself with Go recently I was surprised to see the word "panic" so often. Panic disorder is a real and debilitating disease. I wonder when that terminology will change. But at least it's not as bad as other languages where you need to spawn and then kill child processes. "Abort" is another word we shouldn't use since it reminds some people of the killing of unborn babies. Don't even get me started on the fact that most web pages are predominantly white.

Apple also extended their crusade against firearms to modifying the way iOS displays the pistol emoji, rendering it as a toy water pistol, an entirely different object from a deadly weapon.

This sort of newspeak ideology-based purge is bad for everyone. Political agendas have no place inside of general purpose communication tools. This is no different than running an automated string replacement that changes the word “handgun” to “squirt gun”.