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Originally Posted by Acey
I have the exact same take on that.
Also, I think the master/slave thing is dumb. In the case of flash or gyros it is a very descriptive method that outlines how they behave. If I was setting up my flashes and somebody yelled, "THAT FLASH IS A SLAVE LIKE YOU SHOULD BE" or something then... maybe?  It's pretty much the same as playing the black national anthem and thinking that is somehow combating racism. |
I snorted when I read that fake quote in a Southern accent, wifey thinks I'm losing my mind.
Also in regards to master/slave origins, let's not forget that every race has been owned slaves, sold/traded/kidnapped slaves and also been slaves themselves. Using the term to refer to a bedroom or photography or computers doesn't make it inherently racist. The concept of slavery is actually more classist and often more religious in nature than racial, as even for American slavery much of it was rich black men selling poor black men to the white Europeans who moved them across the Atlantic. It evolved into a racial thing afterwards because all the North American slaves looked different than everyone else in the continent.