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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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    whjohnson:

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


    As an official spokesman for "the left", I think this is nonsense too, banning the word does nothing to help those past or present who suffer under slavery. I would add that slavery itself is of the "right", certainly not "the left".


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    whjohnson:

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


    As an official spokesman for "the left", I think this is nonsense too, banning the word does nothing to help those past or present who suffer under slavery. I would add that slavery itself is of the "right", certainly not "the left".


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