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Re:Thunderbird 91.0 by ajsnigrutin on Thursday August 12, 2021 @10:06AM (#28156529)
Many countries were built with the labour of slaves. I'm a slav, from a slavic country, and the words "slav" and "slave" are not just coincintally similar. We were also a communist country, and the definition of 3rd world (and technically leaders of the 3rd world/nonaligned at the time).

Somehow we have no issues with master/slave. Most people (except failed students and former party members) know communism was a really really shitty system. And most of the current racial issues are imported from america, during the democrats-vs-trump "battles", and are so americanized, that people forget minorities here (gypsies,...), and use BLM for maybe 10 black people that live here.

Re:Thunderbird 91.0 by nekasrbenda on Thursday August 12, 2021 @10:30AM (#28156796)
I'd argue that we still carry scars from the Ottoman rule, even though it ended 2 centuries ago.

There are living people in USA who were around for the segregation.

Re:Thunderbird 91.0 by dotancohen on Thursday August 12, 2021 @11:55AM (#28157876)
My grandfather, who passed only 14 years ago, was a slave. I have not qualms with the word "master".

Are there any documented cases of the word "master" offending anybody?