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> Unfortunately, there's no way an institution is going to push back

If everyone pushed back harder, perhaps things would be different.

From what I remember, HN reacted mostly positively to someone's speculation that 'master' branch or 'blacklist' might offend black people (they weren't black themselves). Tons of comments arguing that changing it is not an issue, so we should do it.



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