The ‘woke’ leftists at Dictionary.com have announced that they are banning the word “slave” from the English language because it’s offensive.
As part of an ongoing leftist drive to be more “inclusive”, Dictionary.com will no longer include the word “slave” as a noun identifying a person, and will instead use the adjective “enslaved”.
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Moonbattery.com reports: The word “slave” is to be canceled because leftists disapprove of it for being “dehumanizing.” Whether a word is included in the dictionary depends on how progressive ideologues think the word makes people feel.
Despite all the words our moonbat rulers have abolished, dictionaries won’t necessarily get smaller, because they also add terms.
The change is one of 7,600 updates the online resource has announced, which also include the addition of terms relevant to race, social justice and identity, such as “BIPOC” (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) and “Critical Race Theory.”
The latest updates — which also include capitalizing “Indigenous” when referring to people, and adding entries for “racialization,” “disenfranchisement” and “overpolice” — follow those announced last September. That round of revisions saw the capitalization of the word Black in reference to people, and the addition of terms relevant to mental health (specifically, suicide and addiction) and LGBTQ identity.
Nothing escapes politicization under our system of totalitarian leftism, least of all language, where progressives have aggressively implemented the strategy George Orwell mapped out in 1984 of controlling our thoughts by manipulating our vocabulary.
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Load of ignorant rubbish .Slavery was so 8 stituionalisex around the world in many countries it was quite prestigious To be the slave of a billionaire and live in a palace with the best food protection security was far better than being free living in a hut at the mercy of the world.
Definitely 1984
If there are no more “slaves” then they don’t need reparations.
we must remove all knowledge of slavery, including the definition.. so THE SLAVES WON’T KNOW THEY’RE SLAVES!
As far as I can tell (and unless I’m wrong), the English word “slave” is an anglicization of the name “Slav,” and dates from a time when Slavic people were thought of as “bond-servants.” But oops, Slavs are white, so they must have been “supremacist bond-servants”! So in deference to Slavs it might be good to have an alternate word, but changing the dictionary is just muddleheaded and wrong.
How about ‘pickininny’?
They want to eliminate being convicted of the current white slave trade and the sex slaves the children . So now they have to rewrite the laws making it enslaving whites and enslaving children.? Anyway its rubbish Every culture used slavery. Most slaves lived very well, were tutors to Royal children, mistresses to King’s, and all that sort of thing They weren’t chained up They had their days off their holidays all that They had their own homes and families It was like communism. They owned nothing and were happy The current image comes from propaganda and the inhumane treatment particularly of the English owned slaves in the Caribbean working on the sugar plantations were one owner especially was a brutal money hungry monster
When slavery was abolished by America really, then England adapted and simply called people criminals and chained them as convicts and they were even better value than slaves They cost nothing to buy and could be housed fed and clothed miserably
Orwellian bastards!