> On Jul 21, 2020, at 9:25 PM, Loren Wilton <lwil...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> For better or worse, we are at an inflection point in society where society
>> as a whole is deliberating the meaning and / or use of the terms "white" and
>> "black".
>
> I do strongly wonder whether this is "society" or only "people in the USA".
> It should be noted that historically bkacks were enslaved just as little or
> much as any other race in other countries, and I don't see those contries
> bending over to appease blacks because the Romans and Greeks would enslave
> them (as well as anyone else).
>
> You note that "gay" has a different meaning today. As far as I know, the
> words "black" and "white" were not systematically used to refer to skin
> colors before about 1963, when a movement was set afoot in the USA to replace
> "negro" with "black" and "caucasian" with "white".
>
> Yes, reference was made to skin colors before, and the English "negro" is
> obviously the same word as the Spanish "negro", but in that case, it is
> merely the name of a color. So the USA in the 1960s made the decision to take
> a word from a non-Latin root and apply that color as a substitute for a Latin
> word that denoted a race.
>
> It therefore bothers me somewhat that we are now using this post-1963
> renaming to condem terms like "blacklist" and "blackball" that have existed
> for over 2000 years, and "black sheep", which has doubtless existed in
> Egyptian for another 6000 years before that, as being racist and somehow
> denegrating African Americans specifically.
Oh my god, you snowflakes, please just get over yourselves.
You are a loud, pedantic, solipsistic minority that is just unwilling to either
a) accept this change and move on b) switch to software that doesn’t upend your
tiny little worldview c) fork it and take this discussion to your fork’s
technical list.
Please, there must be somewhere else you can discuss this issue. There’s only
like 4 of you, you can do this with a cc: list.
