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Ethics: Are we misusing the terms "master-slave". Do we even have a community / forum in which we can discuss this?

Philip Oakley
The recent world wide considerations of the diversity challenges in our society has highlighted that we in Engineering can be perpetuating some of the derogatory terms implicit within our use of "Master-Slave" for purely inanimate technical control scenarios. [1 - N]


We have policies on slavery that every volunteer, staff member and Trustee must read and abide to, but it appears we haven't noticed, to any significant extent, our own continued use of "slave" in our writings.


Do we even have a community or forum in which we can discuss this ethical, and publishing issue?


Philip Oakley

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53273923

[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3243656.stm

[3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53050955

[4 ] http://www.jstor.com/stable/40061475   "Broken Metaphor: The Master-Slave Analogy in Technical Literature"

[5] https://www.theiet.org/involved/volunteering-for-the-iet/volunteer-hub/our-policies/anti-slavery-policy/


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    Lordy! Lordy! This covid thing is addling people's brains - all this diversity nonsense is just indoctrination from those on the left.

    Professional third party offence takers being paid vast sums - I'm in the wrong job - how offended do you wish me to be? Is the pay related to the percentage or frequency of the times I can take offence? I could be offended 100% of the time if it pays well enough.


    I am surprised that any sensible independent critical thinker would take such nonsense so seriously that whole committees would be set up to examine the subject! Just think of all that mental effort being misdirected into nonsense like this when it could be redirected to solving real world problems instead.
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    Lordy! Lordy! This covid thing is addling people's brains - all this diversity nonsense is just indoctrination from those on the left.

    Professional third party offence takers being paid vast sums - I'm in the wrong job - how offended do you wish me to be? Is the pay related to the percentage or frequency of the times I can take offence? I could be offended 100% of the time if it pays well enough.


    I am surprised that any sensible independent critical thinker would take such nonsense so seriously that whole committees would be set up to examine the subject! Just think of all that mental effort being misdirected into nonsense like this when it could be redirected to solving real world problems instead.
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