The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Deset Gled]

It feels like I should have known this existed.

You are one of today's lucky 10,000.

 

[Ryujin]

It feels like I should have known this existed.

This was nightmare fuel for those of us who were both Tolkien and Star Trek: TOS fans, back when it came out.

 

[prabe]

This was nightmare fuel for those of us who were both Tolkien and Star Trek: TOS fans, back when it came out.

Also plausibly for those were were fans of neither.

 

[trappedslider]

 

[Davies]

-missed final clause-

 

[overgeeked]

“The slaves…”

“I don’t like that word.”

“Okay…the prisoners with jobs.”

“That’s better.”

No. It’s really not. Calling it something else doesn’t change what it is. You want people to call it something else so you can pretend it’s actually something else, when it’s not.

 

[Mad_Jack]

It feels like I should have known this existed.

That sound you just heard was the sound of millions of Snarfs throughout the multiverse crying out in terror...

 

[prabe]

“The slaves…”

“I don’t like that word.”

“Okay…the prisoners with jobs.”

“That’s better.”

No. It’s really not. Calling it something else doesn’t change what it is. You want people to call it something else so you can pretend it’s actually something else, when it’s not.

If someone wants to refer to them as "enslaved persons" to center the fact they were (or are) persons, I cannot object much to that. If someone can call them "slaves" and not lose track of their personhood, I can be OK with that, too.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

If someone wants to refer to them as "enslaved persons" to center the fact they were (or are) persons, I cannot object much to that. If someone can call them "slaves" and not lose track of their personhood, I can be OK with that, too.

I prefer to say, Heteronomous members of the gig economy.

 

[prabe]

I prefer to say, Heteronomous members of the gig economy.

I didn't know lawyers got paid by the word. I guess, if you type really slowly, though ...