LANGUAGE: It’s enslaved persons, not “slaves”. We are people who were ENslaved. When you say “enslaved”, you make clear that someone else did this to us. When you say “slave” you speak the language and mindset of the people who did this to us. This is important. It is not semantics. #history #language #enslavedpeople #Black #Mastodon #words
@popcornreel While I understand this and it makes sense, is it really so wrong to say "slave"? It's been the common saying for forever and doesn't really bear offence to either party as far as I can tell?