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“At the beginning, my character is seriously subordinate to her powerful and terrifying older sister,” Williams says.

To suggest that a Black person is lazy is a very old white racist stereotype that has its origins in white on Black chattel slavery and the American apartheid system that deemed Black people as incapable of full citizenship, “natural” slaves, childlike and members of a subordinate and inferior group that was unfit for freedom.

From Salon

China and Taiwan are "not subordinate to each other", he said, adding that China "has no right to represent Taiwan".

From BBC

The journalism sex scandals we’ve had over the past few years have generally been of the #MeToo variety: male boss harasses female subordinate.

I can’t think of a single high-profile female journalist who lost her career for sexually harassing or assaulting a subordinate.

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