Privilege or subtle racism?

[apparentparadox]

I recently started doing an online Git course, and in one of the intro lessons, the course creator goes into a bit about how historically the default name of a Git repository was "master", but Apple and GitHub have recently changed to making the default name "main", and then goes into a diatribe about how this is imposing acceptable speech standards on the iOS development community.

The course creator could have used this as an opportunity to talk about how arbitrary Git branch names are -- they don't have any meaning to Git, just the meanings that users choose to put on them. But, instead they did this diatribe.

I'm really torn on whether to drop out of the course and request a refund. This seems to be just an example of privilege, rather than actual racism. I'm not sure what I'm going to do.


[Also posted on Mastadon apparentparadox@tech.lgbt]

Comments

[zipperbear]

Your two postings have me wondering if this touchiness about change is a blind spot they would prefer to know about or not know about.

[apparentparadox]

I hadn't thought of the connection between the two posts. Interesting viewpoint.