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Many countries were built with the labour of slaves. I'm a slav, from a slavic country, and the words "slav" and "slave" are not just coincintally similar. We w
by ajsnigrutin 5y ago
Many countries were built with the labour of slaves. I'm a slav, from a slavic country, and the words "slav" and "slave" are not just coincintally similar. We were also a communist country, and the definition of 3rd world (and technically leaders of the 3rd world/nonaligned at the time).
Somehow we have no issues with master/slave. Most people (except failed students and former party members) know communism was a really really shitty system. And most of the current racial issues are imported from america, during the democrats-vs-trump "battles", and are so americanized, that people forget minorities here (gypsies,...), and use BLM for maybe 10 black people that live here.
- nekasrbenda 5y agoI'd argue that we still carry scars from the Ottoman rule, even though it ended 2 centuries ago. There are living people in USA who were around for the segregation.
- dotancohen 5y agoMy grandfather, who passed only 14 years ago, was a slave. I have not qualms with the word "master". Are there any documented cases of the word "master" offending anybody?