[VOTE] Switch 'master' to 'main' branch for repositories

[Imre Kaloz]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2023, Paul Oranje wrote:

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>       Op 27 feb. 2023, om 15:44 heeft Imre Kaloz <kaloz at dune.hu> het volgende geschreven:
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> [snip]
>       A lot of people had this mindset in the last century - we are lucky there were people against those ongoing "developments". It's really
>       troubling to see even the descendants in Europe so quickly forgetting history.
> 
> This seems an unholy comparison. This issue about main or master - whatever opinion one may have about that - is just about whether we as a project will
> be sensitive to the feelings of (descendants of) people that suffered from slavery and for whom the word master carries an unpleasant connotation. A
> tendency among many projects that for the above reason avoid the use of the term master and following that development should not be compared with those
> that uncritically followed fascism during the thirties in the last century. So, I kindly and respectfully ask you not to do so.
> 
> Paul
>

As David noted, slavery had deep and ugly history way before the discovery 
of the Western Hemisphere. We have enslaved each other, not to mention 
that the enslavement of Europeans was a significant part of the economy of 
the Ottoman Empire, too.

It never starts with camps and weapons, it always starts with restricting 
what to say and think followed up with labeling and dehumanizing others. 
It's really sad that a lot of people don't notice the synergies between 
the current cancel culture movement and other autocratic movements from 
the past. Those who burn books, favor censorship and restrict freedom of 
speech were never the good guys.

I understand you have born on the luckier part of the fence and only had 
to face the brutality of one extreme - we had the "pleasure" to experience 
both. Anyone from Central Europe will be way more edgy regarding this 
topic, so being respectful here includes never weaponizing the tragedy of 
millions and ignore the tragedy of million others'.


Imre