[Ads-l] Fw: [ADS-L] Enslavement of Native Americans [was: wench

[Michael Quinion]

On 01/04/2016 17:43, Z Rice wrote:
> As I said the first time, the use of the term "slave" on this mailing list
> is very telling as it implicitly LEGITIMIZES the enslavement of children,
> women, and men. The language in your message, and on this mailing list
> engages in this practice, and I will never submit to navigating history
> with that sort of manipulative language and warped thinking.

Your repeated assertion of this nonsense is becoming tiresome.

Somebody who has been enslaved is a slave. The word is nothing more than 
a useful identifier. You can't change the English language by diktat, no 
matter how much a word might offend you.

-- 
Michael Quinion, World Wide Words
http://www.worldwidewords.org

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org