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Python joins movement to dump 'offensive' master, slave terms

Ben Tasker

> Fifty years ago, people missing a leg, or an eye were called "cripples".

FWIW, I still refer to myself as a cripple (though my leg is faulty rather than missing). That's unlikely to change either - I have had people tell me I should refer to myself using different terms, but they never seem able to explain how it *isn't* offensive to tell me what terms I can use to refer to myself.

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