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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
madires:
The whites are blacks who lost their dark skin color. ;) We all have our roots in Africa. It's called evolution.
Almost all living people outside of Africa trace back to a single migration more than 50,000 years ago:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/almost-all-living-people-outside-africa-trace-back-single-migration-more-50000-years
And there are more facts which are ignored or not talked about. Black people can be racists too. Ask black-white couples!
We could be happy humans if we would treat each other with respect, no matter which skin color, religion, walking barefoot or driving a Ferrari. Words aren't the problem. The problem is in your mind!
MK14:
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--- 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.
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You're right, that is the same or similar, to what google searches said, before I posted it.
But, I changed it, on purpose to 'Superbeings'. because I wanted to change it, to make the joke work the way I wanted (without needing to include religious terminology).
Also, I remember movie(s), which seemed to portray them as more like superbeings. Can't remember exact name of film, but it was 'Hercules' or a similar type of film. From around the 1960s.
tl;dr
I'd changed it on purpose, it was a joke.
madires:
No worries! Even I was able to understand your joke. Anyway, also a joke should get the facts right. :)
PS: I had to learn Greek and Roman mythology in school.
coppice:
--- Quote from: madires on July 26, 2020, 02:21:37 pm ---And there are more facts which are ignored or not talked about. Black people can be racists too. Ask black-white couples!
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Much of what is being called racism today is just the effect of being the odd person out. Anyone substantially different from the bulk of the group they are located in stand outs, and there are some who will be against them for it - they could be black, white, tall, short, fat, thin, smart, stupid, fast, slow, strong, weak, hard working, lazy. Whatever makes you stand out makes you a target for people near the average who are programmed to find deviations from the centre of any bell curve distasteful.
Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: madires on July 26, 2020, 02:21:37 pm ---The whites are blacks who lost their dark skin color. ;) We all have our roots in Africa. It's called evolution.
Almost all living people outside of Africa trace back to a single migration more than 50,000 years ago:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/almost-all-living-people-outside-africa-trace-back-single-migration-more-50000-years
And there are more facts which are ignored or not talked about. Black people can be racists too. Ask black-white couples!
We could be happy humans if we would treat each other with respect, no matter which skin color, religion, walking barefoot or driving a Ferrari. Words aren't the problem. The problem is in your mind!
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You'd think that ADOS peeps would be grateful that the masters were so generous to bring so many to the brave new world since they missed out thousands of years before.
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