MindsUnite - Discuss - I just got a tattoo recently that says: A MAN CHOOSES on one arm and A SLAVE OBEYS on the other. Some people say that it's "racist" because it has the words "slave" and "obey" in it. If that were true, would the tattoo also be anti-semetic because the Jews were enslaved by the Nazis? Would Obey Records be racist? It's a line from the video game Bioshock that I thought was really badass. It's my favorite video game and I thought it would be cool to get it as a testament to free will. What do you think?

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I just got a tattoo recently that says: A MAN CHOOSES on one arm and A SLAVE OBEYS on the other. Some people say that it's "racist" because it has the words "slave" and "obey" in it. If that were true, would the tattoo also be anti-semetic because the Jews were enslaved by the Nazis? Would Obey Records be racist? It's a line from the video game Bioshock that I thought was really badass. It's my favorite video game and I thought it would be cool to get it as a testament to free will. What do you think?

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it isn't racist at all! not all slavery in the worlds history has been based on race. In most cases, slavery was a place for those without class (economic status) and prisoners of war. Not as any form of justification for slavery in the US, which was racist. But, the slaves were already slaves within their own country when they were sold and brought to the US. This is a fact that is often overlooked

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Well, it does appear to have racist connotations because of the Civil Rights movements within the last century, but the "man chooses/slave obeys" adage is, as willbwind stated below, an ultimatum to the individual. It is a testament to freewill; freeing the mind from the enslavement of conformity, rather than physical enslavement and domination.

Sir-Tarquin-Underspoon

It's really an ultimatum to the individual: Either submit to someone and be a slave, or think for yourself and be free.

willbwind

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