just don’t say: “reparations”—like in tech, just don’t say “blockchain.” ai is fine tho, say that & call everything that ever had anything to do with computer processing “ai.” so, we just need an ai word for reparations. there was this funny teddy roosevelt story about negotiating with strikers & capitalists—i have it written somewhere—where he realised as long as he didn’t call what he was doing for the strikers this one word the capitalists were fine with it but if he used the word they didn’t like they stonewalled.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/02/tulsa-100-million-trust-1921-race-massacre