{"id":152,"date":"2023-02-05T09:01:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T14:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chass\/?page_id=152"},"modified":"2023-03-11T06:25:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T11:25:28","slug":"ethics-of-terminology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chass\/projects\/ethics-of-terminology\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics of Terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Roscoe Giles<\/a>, one of the longest-serving Black faculty members at BU, has encountered the master\/slave terminology for many years. \u201cI\u2019ve been bothered by it all my life,\u201d he said, noting that it also appears in other engineering contexts and even in photography. \u201cI had come to see it as undesirable, but unavoidable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But, when Gomez emailed him with the idea to write the letter and asked for his feedback, Giles said he saw the matter in a renewed light.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe letter reminded me I should have been more outraged by it,\u201d Giles said. \u201cContinuing encounters with an irritation can make you build up a callus. I had built up a callus for this language that I wish I hadn\u2019t built up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHistorically, [the terminology] has been used pretty widely,\u201d Giles added. \u201cIts [appearance in the Pearson textbook is] not an exotic or unusual use of the term. It has always been very striking to me. In most of my courses, I try not to use [the master\/slave terminology]. I\u2019ll use boss\/worker or main\/subsidiary or something like that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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