MrMusAddictMods, can this post be a meta conversation about your survey post?
KairuBytePeople complaining about the name are up there with people who think the fit branch
master is racist. If someone doesn’t want to take a few seconds to understand context, and intends to be offended from the start, they are going to find a reason to be offended.
AmongogYeah, it's so dumb.
They did the same in digital circuits (master-slave flip flops) and even in communication protocols.
𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆It isn’t about being offended. The change hurts no one. The name has a stupid history. It doesn’t matter to me. I don’t know why people are so attached to this name. The stubborn stupidity about keeping it when it affects no one, proves that it should change. I haven’t seen a single substantive reason for keeping a name with a Nazi origin. The vast majority of people do not know or care about an article from 2013. I have not read the article, or played the game. It was 10 years ago. There is no broad consciousness of this origin when a random person encounters the name of this community. Most people associate this name with Nazism and try to give the benefit of the doubt about it being satire. Non native English speakers are far less likely to understand the satire. People showing attachment to this nane is a primary reason it should change.
BlazeJust to add to your point, here is a comment about German users commenting that they would not feel comfortable wearing PCMR gear in Germany, and that was in 2015, the reaction would probably be even stronger today:
libreddit.domain.glass/r/pcmasterrace/…/cnopv2a/
Comparing critics of the PCMR name to people who think the word
master is racist is pretty disingenuous. It’s literally master race, as term that was coined to identify a group of humankind which is better than the rest, a term that is inseparable from Nazi’s.
I knew an addict once… he died… do you think it’s a joke? You should really consider changing your name
False equivalency. “Addict” has different meaning dependent on the volatility of what you’re addicted to. “Master Race” has one meaning.
I mean, master race absolutely has a meaning. That meaning is independent of nazi use, just as the swastika is a symbol outside of nazi use.