The IEEE have been discussing the use and replacement of master/slave within an engineering context for many years. This isn’t a left/right/election conspiracy, but rather a genuine attempt at using clear language in a consistent way.
Both language end engineering evolves over time, and there are many new situations where this kind of relationship needs to be referenced, and the really problematic issue is that (in the English language) there isn’t such a clear and universal word-pair as master and slave to replace them. Whether we like it of not, these words do have a significant amount of baggage, so finding alternative words seems like a sensible move. This doesn’t imply any consequences for what already exists, simply finding a better way to communicate in the future.
To put this into context, every journal has a style and language guide that authors must follow, and have done since they started - is this censorship too?
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