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I'd argue it's not meaningless because the point wasn't to show inclusion but power. Nobody went for master's degrees, "master" as a rank in video games, or anything else.

Reminds me of [1]twitch.tv trying to remove "blind playthrough" as a tag to encourage inclusive language.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/k7dvgw/twitch_remov...



GitHub changed the default branch name from master to main.




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