@markuswerle
Re: "It gives you a sense of movement, but this pre-stage of word policing only alienates people who would otherwise stand with you."

If someone is going to turn against a movement towards a more just and equal world simply because we asked them to use "main" rather than "master", they weren't going to support us anyways when we demanded things that actually materially impact their white privilege or cost them money. They were never going to support the movement until they have a change of heart.

@markuswerle @JessTheUnstill

it's an incredibly trivial change to switch things over from master to main. do a find-replace, you're probably done in 5 minutes.

the only real waste of energy here is dealing with people who dig in their feet about it.

@markuswerle
My thinking recently has been that one should "criticise" large scale / public language use, but dial back on doing that for individual private (ish) speech unless the words used are serious slurs. It's really complex area I think in various ways. Apart from anything else not all English speaking countries have the same histories so may not have the same degree of sensitivity on a given issue.
@JessTheUnstill

@markuswerle @JessTheUnstill "Hypocrisy"

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

(come to think of it, neither does "master".)

Have a nice life, dude.

@markuswerle @orc
I mean, you could have just led with "I only support changes that I in my white male wisdom have deemed 'worthy' of my time." I could have much more quickly discovered that you aren't an ally, will ALWAYS deem anything that inconvenience you as "unworthy", and in my white trans lesbian wisdom have decided you aren't worthy of my continued interaction. Goodbye.