linuxmasterrace

Someone didn't think this through. Banning Master/slave oppresses the BDSM community. Well, it oppresses the Masters, at least. The slaves like a bit of oppression. It's their raison d'être.

Joking aside, language is what the speaker means and nothing else. You can say something to ten people and they'll all have their own interpretations. And they can all be wrong.

A classic a while back was some folk in Australia saying Captain Cook didn't discover Australia because indigenous people had been there for thousands of years. That isn't what discover means but it didn't stop many being offended.

I've discovered lots of things in my lifetime. It doesn't mean I was the first.

Same shit. Different problem. Abolitionism is not finished yet, my friends. And seen in this way, progressive progress has not yet come to an end. It's an ever evolving project.

It was an outdated comparison to use when the terms were coined, and really isn't justified in the grand scheme of using existing concepts to illustrate new ones.