This is not to say that the term predates slavery and is neutral today in pejorative terms.
Music used it because the original is of greater quality. The term is technically and syntactically correct here.
Slavery used the term correctly, extensively and horribly. Honestly, it tainted it.
Most of the people who say it’s no big deal or they don’t care have ancestors who were on the unimpacted or positively impacted side of slavery. Very “let them eat cake” tones. (even though that story itself is a misnomer)
To be perfectly honest, the term in its etymological roots doesn’t fit well in the digital age for common use cases. It’s fallen into common parlance from the analog era, when it had a more direct meaning. Even though it’s not regularly being used as a pejorative, there’s (not zero, but) little harm in slowly phasing it out for better, more accurate terms like main or trunk or origin.
The harm is in allowing these fucking fascists to try to redefine the English language like the people’s republic of china did during the cultural revolution. I’m not going to be bullied by liberal arts partisans into reconfiguring how my brain works because it makes them feel powerful
I’m not going to be bullied by liberal arts partisans into reconfiguring how my brain works
I hate to tell you this, but that’s a fascist argument using tradition to block out change and accepting others. It’s a screw those other races/religions history and feelings because it makes me feel less powerful kind of statement. I doubt that’s your intent, but there it is.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/master
This is not to say that the term predates slavery and is neutral today in pejorative terms.
Music used it because the original is of greater quality. The term is technically and syntactically correct here.
Slavery used the term correctly, extensively and horribly. Honestly, it tainted it.
Most of the people who say it’s no big deal or they don’t care have ancestors who were on the unimpacted or positively impacted side of slavery. Very “let them eat cake” tones. (even though that story itself is a misnomer)
To be perfectly honest, the term in its etymological roots doesn’t fit well in the digital age for common use cases. It’s fallen into common parlance from the analog era, when it had a more direct meaning. Even though it’s not regularly being used as a pejorative, there’s (not zero, but) little harm in slowly phasing it out for better, more accurate terms like main or trunk or origin.
The harm is in allowing these fucking fascists to try to redefine the English language like the people’s republic of china did during the cultural revolution. I’m not going to be bullied by liberal arts partisans into reconfiguring how my brain works because it makes them feel powerful
I hate to tell you this, but that’s a fascist argument using tradition to block out change and accepting others. It’s a screw those other races/religions history and feelings because it makes me feel less powerful kind of statement. I doubt that’s your intent, but there it is.
No, you are wrong