Red Hat: Stop Saying Master, It's Racist. Today's Red Hat: "Master Your Skills" and Adopt Slop Plagiarism

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 02, 2026

There are two things wrong with the latest (below): 1) they're promoting slop plagiarism; 2) they once again put their double standards on display by saying "Master" in the headline.

Much has been said about IBM's community-shaming using lexical shallowness, e.g.:

2020-07-25	“Watson®” is a Lot More Offensive Than “Whitelist” and “Master”
2020-09-29	IBM Fought for 'Master Race' and Now It's Banning the Word 'Master'
2020-10-13	IBM: The Word “Master” is Rude (Except When We Use It Ourselves)
2021-04-13	IBM Stroking the Masters
2021-04-26	ZDNet Evidently Knows the Word 'Master' Isn't Racist (When Not Paid by IBM and Microsoft to Pretend That It is)
2021-11-25	3.5 Years Later the 'Master' of Fedora is Still Microsoft and IBM Cannot Be Bothered to Alter Git Branch Names (Refuting or Ignoring Its Very Own Directive About Supposedly Racially-Insensitive Terms)
2021-11-25	IBM as Master of Hypocrisy
2023-08-15	[Meme] Obey Your Master, Obey IBM
2024-04-29	[Meme] Write Code 100% of the Time
2025-07-06	IBM is Not Your Master
2026-02-20	IBM, Red Hat and Fedora: Don't Say "Master", It Offends People. Also IBM, Red Hat and Fedora: "Master Podman".

IBM is shredding Red Hat to pieces while it keeps humiliating the collective intelligence of communities by using the term "master" all the time while signaling to the whole world that this is racist and must not be done (except by IBM). █