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I’m glad you don’t have these problems in your European utopia. We still have a lot to work on here - there are race riots every year. Part of our legacy as a v
by gnu8 5y ago
I’m glad you don’t have these problems in your European utopia. We still have a lot to work on here - there are race riots every year. Part of our legacy as a very young country that was built with the labor of imported black slaves.
Other connotations of the word blacklist include the blacklisting of labor activists and of accused communists during our multiple bouts of anti communist hysteria. The word is charged with ugly meanings and there’s no reason to throw it around casually in a software project.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoMany countries were built with the labour of slaves. I'm a slav, from a slavic country, and the words "slav" and "slave" are not just coincintally similar. We were also a communist country, and the definition of 3rd world (and technically leaders of the 3rd world/nonaligned at the time). Somehow we have no issues with master/slave. Most people (except failed students and former party members) know communism was a really really shitty system. And most of the current racial issues are imported from america, during the democrats-vs-trump "battles", and are so americanized, that people forget minorities here (gypsies,...), and use BLM for maybe 10 black people that live here.
- nekasrbenda 5y agoI'd argue that we still carry scars from the Ottoman rule, even though it ended 2 centuries ago. There are living people in USA who were around for the segregation.
- dotancohen 5y agoMy grandfather, who passed only 14 years ago, was a slave. I have not qualms with the word "master". Are there any documented cases of the word "master" offending anybody?
- allendoerfer 5y agoLast time I checked, your race riots were not caused by software, but by gun violence of untrained police officers. I think it is quite clear, what needs to be banned in the US.