On 13.02.2020 09:14, Timo Weingärtner wrote:
Hallo Ulrike,
Quoting from there: "Master-slave is an oppressive metaphor that will
and should never become fully detached from history."
I don't think giving slaves new labels helps them in any way; they will still
be slaves.
You missed the point. The intent it is not to give a new label to remove
the negative term. The intent it is to maintain the negative
connotation to "slave"
We are just abusing the word "slave", so making it "normal". The intent
is to avoid this normalization or the term.
Now we have people which learn "slave" from computer world, before than
from history, so it could seems it is just who give and who receive
orders. [in our context the "slave" has still full powers].
PS: I really used real scissors and real glue to cut and paste text, so
I'm having less problems with metaphors, but I think most metaphors are
just wrong (I need to learn what they do, and then maybe I learn later
what it was the origin). We are supposed to make computer easy, but we
use odd concepts. [You may see in Quora or on other fora how young
people are confused on our metaphors].
ciao
cate
