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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
Ed.Kloonk:
:o
bd139:
They will need air locks on Mars and resources would all be precious. Those sorts of people would get “spaced” in two minutes flat :-DD
Ed.Kloonk:
I remember a time when Mars wasn't the kind of place to raise your kids. Starting to look like it's the go.
madires:
--- Quote from: MK14 on July 26, 2020, 12:18:04 am ---I thought that the protesters, complained that M**s, was now a terrible racial swear/slur word, and to be banned from everywhere.
Because of its religious connotations, and connections to Greek mythical superbeings, and Roman emperors.
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Not quite. Mars is the Roman god of war (*) and the Romans renamed the red planet to Mars. The Greek counterpart is Ares.
*) An early version of Mars was also responsible for agriculture.
Zero999:
The more I learn about human genetics, the more foolish groups which focus on dividing people into different races becomes. There's great genetic diversity in human populations across the world, but the lines between one human race and another are very blurred.
It's no secret that most so-called African-Americans are part European, due to the rape of slaves in the colonial era, but many Americans who consider themselves to be of entirely European decent have signifiant DNA from Africa. It's interesting to see how some white Americans react when they found out they're partly black!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/they-considered-themselves-white-but-dna-tests-told-a-more-complex-story/2018/02/06/16215d1a-e181-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html
Let's stop putting people into groups: black, white, Hispanic etc. It would help to combat lots of the problems in our society.
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