On Tue, 21 Jul 2020, Loren Wilton wrote:
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".
As I mentioned in a post on July 14, black and white to refer to races and skin color (and also red and yellow) gained traction at least as far back as the European Enlightenment, when it was all the rage to classify things, and most Enlightenment writers are explicitly racist in their descriptions and classification. But these terms are used going back thousands of years as well. My post from the 14th includes several links you might find informative. -- Public key #7BBC68D9 at | Shane Williams http://pgp.mit.edu/ | System Admin - UT CompSci =----------------------------------+------------------------------- All syllogisms contain three lines | sha...@shanew.net Therefore this is not a syllogism | www.ischool.utexas.edu/~shanew
