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What historical baggage does whitelist/blacklist have?

• acdha 6y ago
  white = good black = bad Does that seem like a great association to defend when it can trivially be changed with no confusion or loss of meaning?
  • tomp 6y ago
    Educate yourself please. This narrow worldview is disingenuous and does you no Good. Black is positive in finance.
    • acdha 6y ago
      You should read my comment more carefully: I was specifically referring to the whitelist / blacklist usage where there is no common usage reversing the relationship of the terms. I have no objection to finance using it because it’s positive and doesn’t resemble past racist usage.
  • dmingod666 6y ago
    Light = white Darkness = black