It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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    43 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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        43 months ago

        Agreed. The systemic exclusion of POC from benefits and advantages was rolled back just as POCs were becoming independent. It affected BOTH communities , POCs AND economically dis-advantaged equally.

        So you had a substantial population with severe economic and political disadvantages being relentessly targetted by those in power.

        Hence, the current top-1% control 80% upwards of everything.