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Tim Walz calls for scrapping of electoral college to decide US presidential race
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2024
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Why though? We call baking people bakers, why shouldn't we call enlaved people slaves?
It's not as if their circumstances become more human that way.
Person Centered Language
It helps humanize them
Seems a lot of people here are against the humanizing of enslaved people's. Weird.
Honestly, I think people just find you annoying more than anything specific to what you're saying, but that's just a guess.
True, and that's a failing on them. Real baby shit
This very succinctly summarizes what I hate about the "unhoused" brand of pedantry. Pretty sure they want shelter more than some rich college kid making sure everyone on the internet gets their fucking nouns right.
Changing the language you use about a thing changes your perception of that thing. This is data driven reality of making small changes to the way you talk actively changes the thought process on it. You can be lazy and not do it, it's your own language. But that's all your doing. Being lazy, or actively reactionary.
It's just good to reinforce the idea that enslaved people's were people who were enslaved. Not a profession, slave was not their job, it was their status.
Plus studies have shown that by using these people first language, especially while teaching the subject, results in higher empathy for enslaved people and reminds that their status as a slave was one forced upon them and continually so rather than the simple status they were born with.
It's not a huge problem or anything, but it isn't hard to toss in every now and then and only does good.
"Good" like derailing conversations that were about content and making them about semantics. "Good".
God forbid someone on a thread based system bring up a related topic on the side. Like, is that really your complaint? Oh no guys, the humanization of enslaved people's is derailing this 3rd person's quip. Quick, we must stop him!
Silly billy you are.
Idk why but the apostrophe is bugging me. Enslaved peoples.
I called baked people high
I think there’s a difference between the two. The term “salve” says nothing about what happened. It just tells you how things are. However, the term “enslaved” clearly indicates that the person used to be free, but was later forced into slavery by someone.
Words have a definition, slave is the appropriate word to talk about enslaved people and them being enslaved is what makes them slaves therefore it's implied that they are enslaved if they are slaves. Now stop with the PC bullshit to derail the discussion.
Derail a thread with a small side suggestion. That's a lot of pushback to a small request. Almost like you actively wish to not have enslaved people humanized in conversation.
You can always just not say it yourself. To actively try and start fights about it implies malice.
Imo it's more that "enslaved people" emphasizes their humanity, something that slavery itself typically removes from a person. Therefore "enslaved person" can be seen as radical phrasing that works against the goals of slavery
Thank you