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Exactly, this is just going to open up a pandora's box. What about black box testing, is that racist too? And english terms like blacksmith and black-belt? The
by noble_pleb 6y ago
Exactly, this is just going to open up a pandora's box. What about black box testing, is that racist too? And english terms like blacksmith and black-belt?
There are terms like "blue-collar vs white-collar" too which (according to some) deems the physical labor class as inferior to the "white" intellectual class. And there are general english phrases too like "things aren't always black and white, there is a lot of grey area in between".
- jgwil2 6y agoThose terms don't explicitly attach a moral value to colors in the way that the blacklist/whitelist terminology does.
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoThen how about "black hat hacker"? Wonder what the reaction would be if people requested that "brownout" no longer be used because it's insensitive to certain races.
- ThA0x1 6y agoBlacklist/whitelist do not explicitly attach moral values to color either. Blacklisting can be a good thing. For example, you can be blacklisted from a gang's kill list because you did good deeds for the neighborhood. The only people attaching moral values to these are people trying to gaslight others into believing "black=bad".
- ThA0x2 6y agoBlacklist/whitelist do not attach moral values to color either. Do you have a peer reviewed study that states these words attach moral values? Being blacklisted can be a morally good thing. An example: You can be blacklisted from a gang's kill list because you did good deeds for the neighborhood. The only people attaching moral values to these are people trying to gaslight others into believing "black=bad".