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Those terms don't explicitly attach a moral value to colors in the way that the blacklist/whitelist terminology does.
by jgwil2 6y ago
Those 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".