Also. I find that Americans and Canadians use ‘Chalkboard’, and Brits and Euros use ‘Blackboard’. Unless I’m imagining things. What’s the consensus amongst the US pedes here? If it is chalkboard, I’m betting it’s called that for similar creeping PC BS as above.
But, like all things, this topic also got a healthy dose of backward-looking race-washing, and now people are speculating that we went from “blackboard” to “greenboard” to avoid racism.
So two things are probably more true:
Around this time a few feral activists we’re running around bitching about “blackboard” being racist.
A bunch of people today are thinking a lot more shit had to do with race than it actually did, back when black people had a lot more to worry about than a bunch of white people calling a black thing black.
And in reality, a company produces a cheaper green board, so the language changes. The activists claim a tiny victory as the word changes, everybody forgets, and then a bunch of fresh feral activists go nuts again when they hear the word “black” in a sentence that has nothing to do with people of color.
Also. I find that Americans and Canadians use ‘Chalkboard’, and Brits and Euros use ‘Blackboard’. Unless I’m imagining things. What’s the consensus amongst the US pedes here? If it is chalkboard, I’m betting it’s called that for similar creeping PC BS as above.
There’s not a lot of easily found info on it, but common explanation is that a move from black slate to green enamel coat on steel caused the change.
https://www.rd.com/article/blackboards-green-not-black/
But, like all things, this topic also got a healthy dose of backward-looking race-washing, and now people are speculating that we went from “blackboard” to “greenboard” to avoid racism.
So two things are probably more true:
Around this time a few feral activists we’re running around bitching about “blackboard” being racist.
A bunch of people today are thinking a lot more shit had to do with race than it actually did, back when black people had a lot more to worry about than a bunch of white people calling a black thing black.
And in reality, a company produces a cheaper green board, so the language changes. The activists claim a tiny victory as the word changes, everybody forgets, and then a bunch of fresh feral activists go nuts again when they hear the word “black” in a sentence that has nothing to do with people of color.