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wording: avoid blacklist/whitelist stereotypes #5546

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@bagder bagder commented Jun 9, 2020

Instead of discussing if there's value or meaning (implied or not) in
the colors, let's use words without the same possibly negative
associations.

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Instead of discussing if there's value or meaning (implied or not) in
the colors, let's use words without the same possibly negative
associations.
@bagder bagder added the tidy-up label Jun 9, 2020
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tiran commented Jun 10, 2020

Come on, stop contributing to the hypocrites gaining popularity. It's just a waste of time for many users and developers.

A brand new, just 20h old sockpuppet account, how novel.

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bagder commented Jun 10, 2020

Here are some references. Doing this change is easy and functionality-wise totally harmless. I don't see why we couldn't just change the wording if there's even just a risk that the use of these phrases actually are doing things worse for a minority.

If the only argument against it is but x-list is not racist then I will choose to ignore that argument.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-ncsc-to-stop-using-whitelist-and-blacklist-due-to-racial-stereotyping/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148600/
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=981129#c16

Thanks for playing. I'm merging this now.

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Be better than this, please. @bagder did the absolute right call.

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