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[–] 26 points 1 year ago (6 children)

What are they "conserving"?

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    actually i looked that up recently and it could be that "conservative" doesn't refer to "conserving" something in the sense of keeping it around.

    rather, it comes from latin "serva" which means something like "hard work". so, "conservative" could mean something like "somebody who is hard working" or "somebody with hard work". referring to the "we are hard-working people" mindset.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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?

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