General > General Technical Chat
'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
<< < (75/352) > >>
Simon:
Who is Bristol? are the people of Bristol today the ones that were involved in the slave trade?
Kjelt:
Can someone explain to me why race independent terms like master and slave should be abandoned?
Or is the history limited to a certain era and forgotten that nord african muslim masters held over a million european white christian slaves ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade
bd139:
LMAO exactly.

It’s wall to wall wingnuttery.
DimitriP:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on June 15, 2020, 06:33:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: coppice on June 15, 2020, 06:12:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on June 15, 2020, 06:08:17 pm ---Not glorifying/celebrating ≠ sanitizing.

--- End quote ---
That's one of the excuses they use in 1984. Its sad they so many people right now are happy to side with the bad side in 1984.

--- End quote ---

Direct quote from '1984' to prove your assertion please, or I'll assert that is double-plus not a quote from Orwell.

--- End quote ---

Here is the full text:   http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt   
Funny thing is I read it for the first time in 1984. I thought Naaaahh....that can't really happen.
Then paper books started going out of style and websites and posts started getting edited and disappearing.

And now we are into a situation that there is a side that by attempting to control the view of the past ,  they are using it as a show of strength that they are deserving to control the future.
Just to get the November votes.
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: coppice on June 15, 2020, 06:02:38 pm ---In the UK the residents of Bristol seem happy at the moment that a statue of slave trader Edward Colson has just been pulled down, and streets and schools named after him are being renamed. They want this because they want to santize their city, and pretend they have a squeaky clean history. Its a terrible idea. 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not a game plan.

--- End quote ---

Don't lump all Bristolians together. It ain't gert lush, me babber.

In fact, it is no better than racism, or classism, or any of the other divide-and-conquer pigeonholing techniques.
Navigation
Message Index
Next page
Previous page
There was an error while thanking
Thanking...

Go to full version
Powered by SMFPacks Advanced Attachments Uploader Mod