Comment on Not promoting hate speech but what happened to all the slights/slurs/vulgarity from like the 20s and 40s. There were so many. Now it seems well I can only think of three?

• yoevli@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  From what I can find online, it seems like it’s unlikely that particular term was originally meant to refer to slave masters and it moreso referred to the head of household.

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  • Zagam@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    OK, thsts fair. Its something I heard, not researched myself. Still, fuck the patriarchy.

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    • arararagi@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Just accept you were wrong, in Brazil there was a company that didn’t want to use “black Friday” because they didn’t find a source saying it wasn’t racist.

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      • Zagam@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I did? I said it was a fair and that I hadn’t read it myself. I’m not sure what more you expect.

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