Topic awaiting preservation: LA county wants ban on master/slave terms.. (Page 1 of 1)

For everyone who missed it. The LA county wants their supliers to stop using the words master/slave in their equipment. They think it's offensive.... http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp


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LA thinks something is offensive... Well if that isn't the pot calling the kettle black...



[This message has been edited by synax (edited 11-26-2003).]

BAH!!!!! HAhahaahaahaa

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[This message has been edited by eyezaer (edited 11-26-2003).]

Aren't those the same jokers that tried to ban lap dances?

Quoted from someone who goes to another forum i visit:

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I wonder how much fur would fly if the Slave driver was painted black.

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I wonder what the L.A. BDSM community has to say on this issue


It's only after we've lost everything...
That we're free to do anything...

This is just sooo funny... and tragic.

This was an appropriate comment I found on the subject:
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Well, how should they handle Unix then, with commands like: touch, unzip, strip, finger, mount (Just the other day, I myself uttered the suggestive phrase "I should just be able to mount you" to a friend when we tried to set up a network.) and fsck. Also the characters / (slash), # (has[c]h) and

yeah, caught this on CNN yesterday.... some people have to seriously find something to do with their lives...


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There's a lot of funny stuff in here relating to this.

Isn't the assumption that the terms "master" and "slave" refer to white and black the racist aspect and not the use of the terms itself?

err.. hope its all a joke..

Had almost the exact same thread in another forum and I Posted this:

"A new terminology has been selected to replace the MASTER/SLAVE referance to HDD relationship on the BUS. It has been approved as adequate and unoffensive by LA County. This terminology will now be known as the PIMP/HO relationship."