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So you acknowledge that the slave/master terminology carries associations to human slavery. You just think is would be an Orwellian erasure of history to discon
by goto11 6y ago
So you acknowledge that the slave/master terminology carries associations to human slavery. You just think is would be an Orwellian erasure of history to disconnect OS terminology from the historical reality?
- Dylan16807 6y agoThe problem is that the word can have derogatory implications, not that it represents a bad thing to do with humans. If slavery didn't have the sort of implications it does in the US, it might be no worse than 'kill' or 'destroy'. You shouldn't do those to humans either, but seeing the word doesn't leave an unpleasant residue.
- jayd16 6y agoRemoving words with complex history or negative meaning is the definition of Newspeak. >Newspeak contains no negative terms. For example, the only way to express the meaning of “bad” is through the word “ungood.”