I suspected what I was pointing out a tad too nuanced for hn, nevertheless, the word citizen very much has a political implication although not entirely, it can certainly stir up thoughts of being a citizen of a given country or not. First-class citizen has even more charged political implication, the image of people living in a ghetto v lush suburbs immediately comes to mind. After all you guys pushed to change master to main, but no way there is anything remotely true about using literal words that since the ancient Greek times have been used to mean a very specific thing and only that thing.

Changing “master” to “main” is similarly ridiculous as seeing “first-class citizen” as a problematic term, if you ask me.