I especially dislike about this change, that it is borderline stupid. Not even abolishing the word “slave” will abolish actual slavery, let alone racism.
And that is important, because not everyone is a hero. There’s a whole number of people who’ve never seen or felt the impact of racism. They won’t know what this fight is about. They’ll get the impression that it is about petty, illogical shit like not using the word “master”. That the whole movement is overreacting and that racism isn’t actually a big deal.
Worst case, they drift off into more and more extreme groups that at first just joke about truly dumb shit like this, but may eventually consider it a funny meme to be actively racist.
We need those people to at least not become racist. But getting them to fight the good fight is also a lot easier when you don’t have shitty corporations subjecting the whole movement to ridicule.
I especially dislike about this change, that it is borderline stupid. Not even abolishing the word “slave” will abolish actual slavery, let alone racism.
And that is important, because not everyone is a hero. There’s a whole number of people who’ve never seen or felt the impact of racism. They won’t know what this fight is about. They’ll get the impression that it is about petty, illogical shit like not using the word “master”. That the whole movement is overreacting and that racism isn’t actually a big deal.
Worst case, they drift off into more and more extreme groups that at first just joke about truly dumb shit like this, but may eventually consider it a funny meme to be actively racist.
We need those people to at least not become racist. But getting them to fight the good fight is also a lot easier when you don’t have shitty corporations subjecting the whole movement to ridicule.