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ekianjo
1922 days ago
It is the only right association because it's the same word coming from "magister" in Latin and which traveled to become maestro in Italian, meister in German, maestre and then maitre in French and finally master in English.
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dsun180
1922 days ago
And then somewhere in 2019 it suddenly became a racist word against people of color in northern amerika.
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ekianjo
1921 days ago
Pretty sure next we are going to end up banning letters, because there's probably some letters that are intrinsically racist or something.
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