The word “Master Race” is clearly equivalent to terms which were used by Nazis and so are today’s far right wing and alt-rights.
There are other communities which created similar narratives, especially from the 4chan side, and I think the origin of “PC Master Race” comes from there.
I actually agree… the name does make me uncomfortable :I
well that’s not really the point… say a jewish person (or a member of any group persecuted by the ““master race””) expresses discomfort with the term being used (even jokingly), If you tell that person to just leave the community then that means their discomfort does not matter and there is no interest in listening to their issues in this community.
And in all honesty I wouldn’t want to be a part of a community that acts like that
Total non-issue
Because?
“Master Race” will still be referring to this kind of “We are over everything, because our race is over everything” narrative.
Which is basicly the Linux community in a nutshell. We all see ourselves as superior
Which is part of Consumerism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumerism
You realize that Linuxmasterrace is the parody of penguins feeling superior to other right and you fell for it by blowing it out of proportions?
I’m not familiar with the history of the sub, could you elaborate a bit more please?
To give a bit of context: there have been similar discussions in the computer science community in recent years. Two examples are the master-slave paradigm in networking and the default git branch which used to be the “master” branch.
I see similar arguments here than in the aforementioned discussions, ranging from “non-issue”, over “language forms reality”, to “respect marginalized groups”.
The origin of pcmr is a video by zero punctation.
Ok, my mistake, but does this change the fact that the term still characterizes structural racism? Also, due to the nature of anonymity, we cannot know much about the motivations of any particular person on the internet. 4chan and alt right are exactly where you least expect them to be.
