Your anscestors don't count because they're European. You might live to see the day of South African style genocide against whites, which seems to be nearing reality.
These people are stupid. “If we take it out of the dictionary it’ll cease to exist.” No it won’t, you’re just making the dictionary less useful as a reference. The dictionary reflects how we use language, it doesn’t dictate it.
2022: No, you're not a slave just because we lock you up at night and make you work the field all day while chained up. Hell, there's no such thing as slave anyway.
This isnt actually that cringey if you read it all.
They are just switching to calling them "enslaved" instead of slaves, their reasoning is that it's an evil act done to people and not who the person is. So the focus of the descriptive word should be the act and actors who enslaved them.
I remember when they were fussing about the N-word in Mark Twain novels and they replaced it with "Slave". They'll never get off this carousel of forcing people to change their language.
If we remove confederate museums, Frederick douglass statues, The word slave from our language, how can we ever prevent it from happening again? Oh yeah. It's meant to happen. Perpetually.
It took a hundred years, but the bolsheviks succeeded beyond even what they thought they would accomplish.
Communazis up to their usual history revisionism, to cover their own crimes.
Never fails.
The word slave comes from slav. Eastern european folk that were often captured by Romans et al for centuries.
I object to my ancestors sacrifice being erased!
Your anscestors don't count because they're European. You might live to see the day of South African style genocide against whites, which seems to be nearing reality.
I think the origin of the word slave stems to Latin, hence Romans, but the Mediterranean muslim pirates were big slavers, to be sure.
The tatars and ottomans also beat on my slavic ancestors. Poles win points for tenacity!!
According to books by Sowell, slave comes from Slav.
These people are stupid. “If we take it out of the dictionary it’ll cease to exist.” No it won’t, you’re just making the dictionary less useful as a reference. The dictionary reflects how we use language, it doesn’t dictate it.
They think the United States invented slavery.
They are just switching to "enslaved" to put the focus on the fact that it's something done to them and not their status.
Not as bad as it seemed from title.
We don't use the S-word around here, we prefer..."Prisoners with Jobs"
Meanwhile, Dictionary.com added "finna" to the English Languish.
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Wonder why they didn't add aks or birfday
Dictionary.com should add “faggot” to be defined as Dictionary.com editors
Leave the dictionary alone and use your own discernment.
So, no slaves - no ancestors of those non-existent slaves being entitled to reparations?
This came right to my mind as well. Can't have reparations if there were no slaves
2022: No, you're not a slave just because we lock you up at night and make you work the field all day while chained up. Hell, there's no such thing as slave anyway.
It is not the job of a dictionary to define words or alter their meaning.
Their role is to provide definitions of words used in common lexicon based on a common understanding of what the words mean.
This shit is getting way out of hand.
When my grandson asks me what the "N" in "N-word" stands for, am I allowed to tell him?
Newspeak double plus good!
This isnt actually that cringey if you read it all.
They are just switching to calling them "enslaved" instead of slaves, their reasoning is that it's an evil act done to people and not who the person is. So the focus of the descriptive word should be the act and actors who enslaved them.
Buy a physical book dictionary from 2010. Dems won’t be able to poison it to suit their liberal garbage.
The Democrats are trying to hide all of the evidence.
You cant be a slave if slave isnt a word anymore.
Wow, remove the word slavery before the economy tanks and we all become slaves.
This attack on language has to stop. Words exist for a reason, so we all can communicate our thoughts and ideas on level ground.
It's designed to drive further division between the left and the right and while the elites get away destroying the working class.
Will the word virgina be next?
Is there a dictionary that isn't poisoned by this woke bullshit?
Buy a physical book dictionary from 2010. Dems won’t be able to poison that garbage to suit their liberal garbage.
I almost couldn't read all of this because my eyes started rolling so hard.
As if slavery didn't exist before America. These people are idiots.
I remember when they were fussing about the N-word in Mark Twain novels and they replaced it with "Slave". They'll never get off this carousel of forcing people to change their language.
just use the czech word
These morons are so radical they are actually going to erase slavery lol
If we remove confederate museums, Frederick douglass statues, The word slave from our language, how can we ever prevent it from happening again? Oh yeah. It's meant to happen. Perpetually.
Does any black person actually want eliminate any form of black history? Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben's, or otherwise?
'enslaved' is dehumanizing in that it suggests that one person is a master and the other person is a slave (noun).
as a sex slave to my wife, I must protest!
What the fuck is wrong with someone that they think the word "slave" can't be read without the reader thinking slavery is justified?