To the cynics: how would you feel about this change if your great grand parents were slaves, lived in shackles and got whipped regularly and called the person whipping them “master”?
I'm a minority. My culture has had slavery as an institution for millennia, likely including some of my own ancestors. It also didn't legally abolish slavery until decades after the end of the Civil War in the US, so there's more claim to recency. And, honestly, I couldn't care less. I have better things to do than to try to collect imagined debts from more than a century ago for wrongs that were never done to me.
Words have different meanings in different contexts, to "floss" could be a dental hygiene procedure or it could be performing a particular dance. It is simply not the same to refer to a "master branch" as it is to a "slave master".
I am indifferent. My ancestors were slaves. Other ancestors were slavers. Most people only need to go back far enough to find both in their line of ancestry.
I'd be indifferent since I care very little about my ancestry. I've never bothered to actually look up how my ancestors lived. I assume they were peasants that got by by eating tree bark.
As somebody who is a descendant of slaves I feel like it's 1918 again and communist commissars are back with changing the language to support their delusions.
