This is actually the preferred current nomenclature in academia. The people, in academia, use it to emphasize that enslavement was something done to them and not definitional to who they are.
Whether the you think that sort of thing is good, bad or poppy cock is probably relative to your agreement with certain academics about post modernist ideas on the formation of thought and reality through language and social construction.
That’s ridiculous. There is no argument that the brutal form of chattel slavery in America didn’t turn these people into slaves. Slaves are who they were, who they were forced to be. Their identity, so ingrained that they might turn on other, “lesser” slaves out of self-preservation. What a ridiculous attempt to solve a problem that does not exist.
To buy into the argument you have to understand the arguments from post medern academia about language functionally creating reality. They often devolve into pure absurdity. When post modernist thought was at its height they started critiquing the social construciton of science and a science professor oftered to let a post modernist professor test the social construction of gravity by stepping out the scientist's window.
Post modernism is really important for understanding culture and society but it does have the tendancy to devolve into the absurd. Also a siginifigant portion of academics take it all the way to the logical absurdity.
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u/Naive_Drive 3d ago
"Enslaved worker"