Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?

• TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The US may not have invented it, but there are still people in the US who are affected by it today.

  Americans care about slavery for the same reason that Germans care about Nazis.

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ^

    Ya know what gets my goat? Right Wing Chuds who ask why white people don’t get credit for ending slavery…

    I dunno, why is it that when I point a gun in someone’s face and decide to shoot him in the leg instead, do I not get credit for preventing his murder?

    Oh because he’s worse off than he would have been if I had done nothing at all? Because the only reason he was ever in danger of being killed was because of MY actions?

    Congratulations, you’ve solved the riddle.

    Some white people have generational wealth to fall back on No black people have that because the Klan burnt down black wallstreet.

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    • maniii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And red-lining districts, and bull-dozing new black towns for highways. etc etc etc

      There are so many instances of going around laws just to disadvantage black/coloured people.

      Pulling the ladder up after themselves and telling others to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

      Many things were wrong, but language is where people draw the line, like … c’mon. Using slurs I can understand it is uncouth offensive. But master/slave in technical terms ??? NO ONE means the original meanings unless they are also crazy!

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      • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I keep trying to tell people that White Privilege doesn’t mean you have an easy life because of your skin color, as a honky myself I’d be heavily offended if anyone legitimately believed something so naive as the idea that I lived on easy street. That my lack of any thing even coming close to a tan put me in some elite club. I very much do not as I live paycheck to paycheck, often having to buy essentials like food and gas on credit, whilst having to live with family and use food banks to get by.

        However, no one’s out here actually arguing that being white makes my life easy because that’s not what white privilege is.

        White Privilege simply means that out of all the things working against me in this dog-eat-dog world of late stage capitalism and constant culture war, my skin color is not one of them.

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  • awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Given the current US prison system and Germany’s stance on Israel, that sentence might mean something very different from what you had in mind

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    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      slavery is fine as long as it’s legally a mandated form of punishment, gotta love the so called “correctional institutions”

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      • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        When you get out of jail, you’re blacklisted from employment and housing because of the fact that you were in jail in the first place. How the hell is this rehabilitation?

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    • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nothing’s getting better, we’re just rebranding the terror to sound less horrible

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• desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  we may not have invented it but we certainly invested in it and probably incested it as well.

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