Trying this again, hopefully this is a proper place for this!
Things like this are always very conflicting. I feel fairly confident saying that almost nobody knew of the history, nor mentally associated it with anything historically racist. By digging up these old ideas it feels as if we are empowering the racist ideas of the past instead of letting them be forgotten as they deserve to be.
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