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Re: Loaded words replaced by euphemisms

> Why do you think people originally chose those colours to represent good and bad?

Nonsense! The positive connotation of white is because it symbolizes light, and light stands for life, hope, purity, knowledge and wisdom. On the other hand black stands for night and darkness, this frightening situation every child goes through, associated with danger, death, and incapacity to see (thus ignorance).

African toddlers are afraid of the dark just the same, it's an universal human thing which has nothing to do with the African slave trade. My point is that those color connotations would had been the same if inhabitants of Africa had the same skin color as Europeans, or if racism (a real thing) never existed.

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