> if we're saying the sins of the parents should be visited on the children

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…)

As a brit I didn't know cornwall + ireland were raided for slaves into the 1700s (earlier, with viking Circa 1000 yes, but not after). Could you provide some solid links please? TIA

This. Thanks.

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_...

As a Brit at least, the empire was doing very well out of the slave trade at some point even if there were no slaves in UK (which iirc there were some depending how the law on bringing bringing in slaves stood at the point), so I don't think we can disclaim responsibility like that. Whether we should feel personally guilty for something that happened before anyone now living was born is a different issue, but I think we should acknowledge it happened