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The Master and Master Relationship in Computers

John McWhorter is the author of Nine Nasty Words and Woke Racism. He's also an associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University. John says we need to accept that words can often have many meanings. And so I wouldn't want to call something a master board and a slave board, he says.

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