| Words aren’t pathogens, indeed, pathogens are not that great to produce analogies and parables. We can’t know what words will actually have on people until we release them. But we know that words we use can make a significant and measurable difference: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-minute-therapist... https://brm.institute/neuroscience-behind-words/ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0... >if approximately no one knows about it How close to "approximately no one knows about" are we in an antonym association like master/slave? >the person bringing up that connotation is the pathogen Well, that is what we can call focusing on the person rather than the social mechanism at stake, isn’t it? Kind of an equivalent to the mechanism through which we produce reactions like "look this bird of ill omen that pretends that there is an invisible entity passing from one person to an other but whose malign effect only reveal randomly, clearly this person is the actual cause of the issue". |
For some in the US and those adopting this particular aspect of its culture. For everyone else... well, there's some hundred other antonyms that come to mind before:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/master
Apprentice, amateur, loser, subordinate, subject, secondary, incompetent, inexperienced, junior - to list just a few. The only form of "master / slave" association people have - except for in the USA - is with the nomenclature used for IDE/SATA drive configuration in BIOS.
And that's in English alone. Other languages generally have their "master" equivalent disjoint from slavery or adjacent topics.