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We should remove short and long because you can use those words to describe people's height or other features. You can argue for the replacement of black- and
by zeeZ 6y ago
We should remove short and long because you can use those words to describe people's height or other features.
You can argue for the replacement of black- and whitelisting with allow- and Blocklisting because it removes the intermediary step of having to know that the color white/light is usually seen on our culture as something representing good, while black/darkness is seen as bad.
Different cultures may see those differently, such as white also representing death and mourning in Japan, which may cause confusion.
But this change likely came from current events and has nothing to do with the above other than someone on Twitter thinking "blacklisting -> black people -> that's racist" and getting upset about it.
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