| > Most, I don’t know really, that would need a lot of statistics Believe me. You wanna know something funny? The word used in Latin for betrayal (tradunt from which derives tradimento in Italian) at its origins meant "to give, transfer, deliver" When the Christians came to be, they changed its meaning to something bad because Judas "gave Jesus away". A simple innocent word has become the quintessence of being an awful person because of a stupid religious myth that also started one of the many persecutions of the Jews. So beware of changing the meaning of words or advocating for their removal from the public discourse, you'll never know who's gonna be hurt by it. > the connection to the toxic social attitudes are obvious the only thing that is obvious is that they are only hyperboles, Amazon is not an Empire, Linus Torvalds is not a dictator and Federer did not actually reign over anything. I would also argue that Linus has been seen as "benevolent" and I really wanna know from you where the connection to the toxic social attitudes lies when we talk about Federer's reign. It's obvious to me that the sentence was referring to "the king of mens' tennis" (as a metaphor, do you know what they are?) to celebrate him and not to some literal evil ruler who should be dethroned, with the use of the force if necessary. |