if you don't mind me asking, does your partner take daily medication for it?
I discovered I have epilepsy about 2 years ago, but my case seems to be very mild. I'm now on Tegretol and haven't had any seizures since. But, of course, I know the intensity and triggers vary wildly from person to person.
He wasn't exactly wrong, as not wearing masks was still the general scientific consensus at the time, right? It was a WHO guideline, if I'm not mistaken.
Yes, exactly. Take IDE drives for example. To use two drives with a single cable, one is set to be the master, the other to be the slave. From that point onwards, the slave cannot write to the bus until the master gives permission.
No. There is a finite amount of time and energy (physical, emotional, and other) that an individual, and by proxy a group, can dedicate to a given cause. Wasting those resources on token gestures like this means there is _less_ energy to go towards actions that will cause meaningful change. "Changing words because feels" is social self-gratification, and does nothing to address the actual societal ills.
If you want to see meaningful change, disregard this terminology frippery and call/write/email/whatever your local rep to support the tri-partisan bill revoking qualified immunity. I promise, you will see vastly more improvement in society if this bill goes through, than if we spin our wheels wondering if "foobar" is going to be the next doublePlusUngood(tm) term d'art of the week.
It's kinda depressing to see the downvote, again, because people don't know history
Slavery does not imply racism, it hasn't been the case for a very long time throughout history, slaves were a social class, a synonym for what we call "working class" or they were people from conquered lands, that were enslaved as a display of suoremacy, not because of their ethnicity.
They usually were of the same ethnicity.
Rome had emperors who were born in Africa (Settimio Severo for example)
Have the slaves suffered abuses?
Yes, of course, just like working class, and farmers and other poor classes before them, have been exploited.
French Revolution is all about that.
They were all French against other French.
Only in modern history slavery has been justified by racism (the theory that some "races" were superior to others) but it's not modern slavery that created racism, it's the opposite.
Slavery in the United States was an especially brutal form of slavery referred to as chattel slavery. In this form of slavery the slaves are not regarded as even being human, they are treated with the same regard as one would treat an ox. American slaves were not the working class as you describe.
There is nothing special in US slavery, except it happened in US and US has been culturally relevant for the west since the end of WW2
One thing is the historical reasoning about it, another is thinking that it happened only to one place in the world and only those people can talk about it.
Don't get me wrong, slavery is a terrible and unjustifiable crime, but it didn't start in US and it didn't end in 1861
The United States was not the only country to ever employ chattel slavery - it's not unique in that regard. It is unique in that it's the only country to end slavery due to civil war - a fact I think is very important in this discussion. There are to this day a number of "rebels" as they call themselves who believe themselves to be intellectually and morally superior to black people, they want to keep black and whites separated, and they want to remind blacks of their inferiority by prominently displaying statues of Confederate Generals in the public square and promulgating the use of terms reminding blacks of their inferior social standing. Terms such as blackmail, blacklist, and master/slave. There's way more behind this than just slavery and snowflakes getting their feelings hurt.
Isn't it weird that people that don't know words etymology want to decide what they mean for the rest of us?
> 1550s, "tribute paid to men allied with criminals as protection against pillage, etc.," from black (adj.) + Middle English male "rent, tribute," from Old English mal "lawsuit, terms, bargaining, agreement," from Old Norse mal "speech, agreement;" related to Old English mæðel "meeting, council," mæl "speech," Gothic maþl "meeting place," from Proto-Germanic mathla-, from PIE mod- "to meet, assemble" (see meet (v.)).
In 1550 USA didn't even exist, not even in the form of colonies, that formed after 1600.
The first known settlement in what we call US today is by the Spanish in 1513 that reached Florida.
So no, blackmail doesn't mean what you think it means and doesn't come from where you think it does.
In UK for example anti slavery movements are born during the civil war as well.
But chattel slavery was already abolished for a period in the 12th century, before the Norman occupation that reinstated it.
US abolished it after a civil war because every other country already did it without having to kill each other, but civil war was really about money and taxation.
I'm sorry it came out this way, it means we have no shared history and values that we can rely on in a discussion
I was replying to
> So structural racism has ended?
The obvious answer would have been "does it end if we remove master/slave from tech terminology?"
But I wanted to give more context, because I believe people can and will understand things when they learn about them in a deeper way
Racism and slavery are two completely different problems, the first existed before races were even considered a thing (for like thousands of years, you might not understand the difference, but 7-8 thousands of years is a really loooong time, imagine that Egyptians to Romans were older than Romans are to us today!), the former hasn't died when slavery was abolished.
Is slavery in the US the worst episode of dehumanisation we can think of, when literally the Nazis no more than 80 years ago were slaughtering and torturing in concentration camps millions of innocent people just because they didn't like them?
They were kept behind walls and deprived of any humanity that was left. I don't think I need to make the list of the atrocities they suffered...
There are no stories of free slaves or good masters that led them have their own piece of land in some plantation in Virginia.
The few that came back have lived among us, they are our grandparents, parents, uncles ...
We've heard their stories, we didn't just read them on books.
My dad met his father (my grandfather) when he was 5, he was captured by Nazis and believed dead.
I never met him because he died young, from the consequences of the imprisonment.
So please don't assume we cannot understand.
Racism and slavery sometimes can fuel each other, but generally slavery is a tribal thing, racism is philosophy gone bad.
Even Gandhi has been criticized for being racist, he didn't enslave anybody, did he?
You can have racism without slavery and slavery without racism
If we're being sticklers, in this context you have to take the meaning of the word "master" in relation to its counterpart, "slave"; the other definitions are irrelevant.
I think the key here is "in the background". I would assume if you're speaking close to the microphone, with no other voices going on, it will not filter anything.
