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> It's also quite funny when I saw that "black magic" is now considered racist. Do you have a handy link for that? Google cannot find anything useful for me r

• parineum 5y ago
  I have definitely seen this before but it seems pretty more on the extremities. Although that's where all these ideas started, good and bad. Not just with magic but the idea of white/black, light/dark as a placeholder for good/bad qualities being racist. Seems much more obviously related to illumination than color to me (scary/bad things happen in the dark/blackness/night).
  • jimmygrapes 5y ago
    Seems to me like a quick fix would be to not use white/black to refer to people.
• grujicd 5y ago
  Sorry, I don't have references, I think I saw it in discussions when github switched from master to main. This is a bit of problem for us outside of USA. We don't experience US culture from everyday interactions. We mostly get it online where many things are exaggerated and polarized more than in reality. So, is there a controversy around "black magic" the US or not?
  • zimpenfish 5y ago
    > So, is there a controversy around "black magic" the US or not? That I can't answer being outside the US myself, alas.