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Can I have an example?

• aleister_777 6y ago
  Whitelisting/Blacklisting. Change of innocuous and unrelated terminology in source code and documentation without any technical justification. No shortage of those examples throughout the industry and open source.
  • chillwaves 6y ago
    So you are saying people have a problem with the term "blacklisting" ? I guess I live a sheltered life then. Nothing like this has remotely ever come up and I live in a major metro.
    • saagarjha 6y ago
      Many codebases are moving away from that term. Here's two large efforts that I am familiar with: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/styleguide/inclusive_code.md https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/styl... https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=1o9zxsxl https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=1o9zxsxl
    • ev1 6y ago
      Yes. You can find PR's on Github and if the maintainer rejects it, accusations of racism and hate crimes. The acceptable term is something like allowlist/denylist/blocklist.
      • tdeck 6y ago
        I've seen the discussion come up about changing these terms and whether it was worth doing. Not once have I seen it turn into an "accusation" of racism against a person, much less hate crimes, so I don't think that paints an accurate picture.
• Khaine 6y ago
  Changing terminology: * whitelist/blacklist * slave/master