It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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For most people it's a lot more simple and subconscious than that. White=positive, black=negative. Most people do not consciously apply this to race, but they don't have to for the subconscious association to take root.

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