The goal here shouldn’t be changing peoples’ view on the concepts of white/black. We need to stop people from using those words to describe people. People (outside rare cases) are not BLACK or WHITE or YELLOW or RED, or… how about we use actual people names for people?
White and black as colors and concepts are too important to have to tippy-toe around. If something is black, I should be able to say so without getting internet-spanked. Etymology means something regardless of what anybody thinks. You can’t just make something racist because it has a color word in it.
Can everybody just stop looking for things to be mad about for a hot minute?
Blackmail literally speaks to what I’m saying, ie. Black Market ie. Slavery (including after abolition). Dirty. Lesser. Unusable. Prostitution. People trafficking.
Yes, how about we actually use the names of people.
So, we’re destined to make new words for colors because all the color words we have now are taboo?
Blackmail was used in England and Scotland to describe money paid by tenant farmers to a chieftan: https://www.history.com/news/where-did-the-word-blackmail-come-from
Black sheep literally comes from black sheep. That one is really obvious… https://www.etymonline.com/word/black sheep
Black market was more associated with anarchists that used black as their color than actual black people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_market
The goal here shouldn’t be changing peoples’ view on the concepts of white/black. We need to stop people from using those words to describe people. People (outside rare cases) are not BLACK or WHITE or YELLOW or RED, or… how about we use actual people names for people?
White and black as colors and concepts are too important to have to tippy-toe around. If something is black, I should be able to say so without getting internet-spanked. Etymology means something regardless of what anybody thinks. You can’t just make something racist because it has a color word in it.
Can everybody just stop looking for things to be mad about for a hot minute?
All your references confirm what I’m saying.
Blackmail literally speaks to what I’m saying, ie. Black Market ie. Slavery (including after abolition). Dirty. Lesser. Unusable. Prostitution. People trafficking.
Yes, how about we actually use the names of people.