The notion that the terms "master" and "slave" have no historical context is false. Otherwise they would be "snoffl" and "barble".https://twitter.com/xobb/status/933446064929087488 …
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Replying to @justkelly_ok @o_guest
I was always going with master/minion, also for the alliteration. But snoffl/barble does have a certain ring to it.
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To suggest that master/slave can be separated from the historical context is naive or worse.
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Then I must be naive. Or worse. I had separated them quite successfully. Right until this tweet. The word "master" and "slave" evoke emotional pain thanks to MySQL.
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It's not so much that you are not expected to separate them. For example, if you're white and otherwise unaffected negatively by historical or modern slavery I can see how and why you have them separated. What is expected from you is to understand that is not the case for others.
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Also another thing to bear in mind that just because you have them consciously separated doesn't mean you have them fully separated. You might for example, have a bias outside your conscious control towards associating master with male/white and slave with female/black.
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Or...You might be wrong and I do, in fact have them fully separated. I invoke Newton's flaming laser sword and propose an experiment to test each hypothesis! We can ask my female/black girlfriend if she thinks I subconsciously think of her as a slave.
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Experiments have been done into implicit associations feel free to check Google scholar!
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