• TechAnon@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Interesting background on the word. Thanks for sharing…I don’t think that’s it, because wouldn’t they be for hard working people then? Like the people doing the actual hard labor on the farms?

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 days ago

      you could also read it as “slave-holding people”, i.e. “con-serva-tive” with-slave-ish (slaveholders)

      being in favor of the existence of hard-working people doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re gonna treat these hard-working people well