| I'm sorry it came out this way, it means we have no shared history and values that we can rely on in a discussion 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 |