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Friday, November 28
Political Correctness run amok or "cultural sensitivity"? Neither, I say... It's just poor.

The case of the County of Los Angeles vs. IT terminology. I couldn't quite believe it when I first heard about it, it's ludicrous - one black man sees the labels "slave" and "master" on hardware devices in a US university and immediately thinks that the whole IT community is being racist towards blacks' by mocking their history. How blatantly idiotic can you get?

However, the LA county officials have to take any complaint like this seriously, no matter how out-of-context the subject is. the terms "master" and "slave" have been around pretty much since people started using one computer to serve or control another, so yes it might resemble the whole master/slave thing to some people but they should realise that it has a logical application to devices too.

Stupid, just stupid. Proof positive once again that the US is the new home of pettiness.


Dragged out of Christopher's memory and pasted
into his blog at 11/28/2003 05:01:00 AM. Roughly.
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