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I can't wait for people to come forward and say that they feel hurt by words like: freedom, freedom of expression and liberty.

> words like "master" and "slave" do in fact evoke historically-grounded feelings of discomfort, even when that isn't the intent.

With your logic, we should stop teaching history, that way, these words would stop making people uncomfortable.



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