I’d say this is the binary option we routinely fail to make the right choice.
> renaming master branches/HDDs to main because of rAciSm
Sticking to OP‘s topic its just ridiculous to have such a discussion in Europe because we are supposedly to feel guilty about what other people did to African Americans.
Lest for the majority of US slaves well into the 1700s were European catholics, or that much of European borders and coasts were routinely raided in the hunt for white slaves (Cornwall, Ireland, Russia…)
Also for the other regions that were routinely raided in the hunt for white slaves:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_Ottoman_Empir...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean%E2%80%93Nogai_slave_...
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
you see, this is the gift of American progressive cultural imperialism.
Suddenly, the only historiography that can exist in the world is that of American trustafarians who try to minimize their shame of being born wealthy heirs of the slave-owner class by spreading the shame on white immigrants that arrived way after slavery got disbanded.
And once you set the precedence that you can at will shame innocent people - the majority of white Americans - into obedience even though it’s technically impossible that their ancestors had anything to do with slavery… well then why stop at Americans at all?
Now its every European country and culture that has to subvert itself to the viewpoint of Ivy league grads.
Brownfacing, Blackfacing, minstrelshows, Kuklux you name it - it doesn’t matter what Poles could possibly have to do with it, or Germans or Swedes - you are all guilty by being born white.
God bless America.