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Moreover, "slave" ultimately comes from Latin "sclavus", which came from Slav, as Slavs were sold off for purposes of servitude.

Slavs, as in, the white European ethnic group.

Edit: wow, downvotes for factual info[0][1]. Go back to reddit.

[0] https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv16zk023.7

[1] https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=41445



Ok, and the swastika was an old religious symbol. Things change over time. The most recent interpretation is often the most relevant.

In the US a swastika evokes memories of Nazis and the word pair “master/slave” evokes memories of white masters and black slaves.


> Ok, and the swastika was an old religious symbol.

It's a current religious symbol. It's everywhere in Asia. Lots of media get swastikas edited out when sent for consumption in the West. Nobody cares.

> The most recent interpretation is often the most relevant.

You mean the almost exclusively US interpretation is the most relevant.

> In the US...

See?


> You mean the almost exclusively US interpretation is the most relevant.

As far as I'm considered, the worst part about this is that because of American propaganda in the mass media and popculture, people from outside the States are projecting American history and problems onto themselves, because that's a hip and cool thing to do now.


I wish you were kidding. We have enough with our own cultural traumas to tackle the American ones on top, but some people really really want them.


We’re on a forum of a US-based VC firm. The majority of companies and news discussed here is US-focused, so yeah the US view is relevant.




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