ziero0
23rd January 2022, 07:59 AM
https://www.etymonline.com/word/help
A domestic servant of American birth, and without negro blood in his or her veins ... is not a servant, but a 'help.' 'Help wanted,' is the common heading of advertisements in the North, when servants are required. [Chas. Mackay, "Life and Liberty in America," 1859].
This certainly sounds racist but racism didn't materialize until 1928.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/racism
racism (n.)
by 1928, in common use from 1935, originally in a European context, "racial supremacy as a doctrine, the theory that human characteristics and abilities are determined by race;" see racist, and compare the various senses in race (n.2) and racialism. Applied to American social systems from late 1930s.
I suppose just to be sensitive to the minority condition we need to eliminate HELP from our vocabulary.
A domestic servant of American birth, and without negro blood in his or her veins ... is not a servant, but a 'help.' 'Help wanted,' is the common heading of advertisements in the North, when servants are required. [Chas. Mackay, "Life and Liberty in America," 1859].
This certainly sounds racist but racism didn't materialize until 1928.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/racism
racism (n.)
by 1928, in common use from 1935, originally in a European context, "racial supremacy as a doctrine, the theory that human characteristics and abilities are determined by race;" see racist, and compare the various senses in race (n.2) and racialism. Applied to American social systems from late 1930s.
I suppose just to be sensitive to the minority condition we need to eliminate HELP from our vocabulary.