Can't we do both?
If you want to see meaningful change, disregard this terminology frippery and call/write/email/whatever your local rep to support the tri-partisan bill revoking qualified immunity. I promise, you will see vastly more improvement in society if this bill goes through, than if we spin our wheels wondering if "foobar" is going to be the next doublePlusUngood(tm) term d'art of the week.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/how-the-supreme-court...
They were already there in Babylon over 4 thousands years ago.
Slavery does not imply racism, it hasn't been the case for a very long time throughout history, slaves were a social class, a synonym for what we call "working class" or they were people from conquered lands, that were enslaved as a display of suoremacy, not because of their ethnicity.
They usually were of the same ethnicity.
Rome had emperors who were born in Africa (Settimio Severo for example)
Have the slaves suffered abuses?
Yes, of course, just like working class, and farmers and other poor classes before them, have been exploited.
French Revolution is all about that.
They were all French against other French.
Only in modern history slavery has been justified by racism (the theory that some "races" were superior to others) but it's not modern slavery that created racism, it's the opposite.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free...
Do you think slaves in Japan were treated equally?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Japan#:~:text=Jap....
There is nothing special in US slavery, except it happened in US and US has been culturally relevant for the west since the end of WW2
One thing is the historical reasoning about it, another is thinking that it happened only to one place in the world and only those people can talk about it.
Don't get me wrong, slavery is a terrible and unjustifiable crime, but it didn't start in US and it didn't end in 1861
Isn't it weird that people that don't know words etymology want to decide what they mean for the rest of us?
> 1550s, "tribute paid to men allied with criminals as protection against pillage, etc.," from black (adj.) + Middle English male "rent, tribute," from Old English mal "lawsuit, terms, bargaining, agreement," from Old Norse mal "speech, agreement;" related to Old English mæðel "meeting, council," mæl "speech," Gothic maþl "meeting place," from Proto-Germanic mathla-, from PIE mod- "to meet, assemble" (see meet (v.)).
In 1550 USA didn't even exist, not even in the form of colonies, that formed after 1600.
The first known settlement in what we call US today is by the Spanish in 1513 that reached Florida.
So no, blackmail doesn't mean what you think it means and doesn't come from where you think it does.
In UK for example anti slavery movements are born during the civil war as well.
But chattel slavery was already abolished for a period in the 12th century, before the Norman occupation that reinstated it.
US abolished it after a civil war because every other country already did it without having to kill each other, but civil war was really about money and taxation.
It didn't start to abolish slavery.
I was replying to
> So structural racism has ended?
The obvious answer would have been "does it end if we remove master/slave from tech terminology?"
But I wanted to give more context, because I believe people can and will understand things when they learn about them in a deeper way
Racism and slavery are two completely different problems, the first existed before races were even considered a thing (for like thousands of years, you might not understand the difference, but 7-8 thousands of years is a really loooong time, imagine that Egyptians to Romans were older than Romans are to us today!), the former hasn't died when slavery was abolished.
Is slavery in the US the worst episode of dehumanisation we can think of, when literally the Nazis no more than 80 years ago were slaughtering and torturing in concentration camps millions of innocent people just because they didn't like them?
They were kept behind walls and deprived of any humanity that was left. I don't think I need to make the list of the atrocities they suffered...
There are no stories of free slaves or good masters that led them have their own piece of land in some plantation in Virginia.
The few that came back have lived among us, they are our grandparents, parents, uncles ...
We've heard their stories, we didn't just read them on books.
My dad met his father (my grandfather) when he was 5, he was captured by Nazis and believed dead.
I never met him because he died young, from the consequences of the imprisonment.
So please don't assume we cannot understand.
Racism and slavery sometimes can fuel each other, but generally slavery is a tribal thing, racism is philosophy gone bad.
Even Gandhi has been criticized for being racist, he didn't enslave anybody, did he?
You can have racism without slavery and slavery without racism
That was the point