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I think you could write an article titled "The term x as it is commonly used is misleading," substituting any common historical term for x. So while this is tru
by JasonFruit 4y ago
I think you could write an article titled "The term x as it is commonly used is misleading," substituting any common historical term for x. So while this is true, I'm not any more bothered by it than using "slave" to describe all the varied forms of servitude in the ancient world, to choose the first example that occurs to me.
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- bigDinosaur 4y agoSlave is a superset of the slave subtypes. 'Viking' is not such a superset because it didn't really exist at all. So the slave example isn't misleading, just incomplete as all generalisations must be. I'd find it problematic if you referred to slaves who were in fact not slaves at all, though.