I am probably the only one marching to different drums on this, but the whole problem seems really stretched to me to the point of becoming a joke, although a dangerous one. It’s not the words that hurt, it’s the context and how they were used; the master/slave concept is absolutely correct in electronics when a system/circuit can in fact be controlled by another one, and identifying connectors by their perceived sex is also 100% correct because we’re simply using ourselves as a measure of things (anyone ever used fingers to count numbers or the hand palm to measure something?).
Let’s ban the practices of slavery, sexism, discrimination, not their words or their memories.
Banning words, especially those that were never written with the purpose of hurting anyone, is just like burning books, just on a smaller scale, and my answer is no.
Here’s an old gem: the Politically Correct UNIX. Good for a laugh for sure, but try imagining the process applied to every other field of human knowledge.
