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There are entire documents in technology written to erase words White / Black List -> Allow / Deny Git "master" -> Main and about 10,000 other examples.

mrguyorama 4y ago
You can name a branch master on git to your hearts content. We still have branches named master. We still have stuff we refer to as "whitelist" even though that was never an accurate descriptor for it in the first place. This shit isn't banned. Nobody stops you from using them.
- phpisthebest 4y ago
  It would be unconstitutional in the US to ban it, the question or comment thread is not about being illegal to use the word.. The issue the social pressure against these terms, and the ever changing landscape one political segment of the population has in being forever offended by everything
  - strix_varius 4y ago
    It's certainly not unconstitutional for organizations to ban words. It's happening every day at major tech companies.
    - phpisthebest 4y ago
      This entire comment thread should be a master class in logical fallcies as every reply shifts the goal posts back and forth.... Which i suspect is the end goal as that way no one actually have to address the underlying issues of compelled / socially enforced speech and the ongoing attacks on free expression on top of the ever shrinking mental health of the population has society coddles people into believing everyone else has to manage an individuals mental health instead of having to harden your own mind and come to terms with the fact the life is rarely fair, kind, nor do people (nor should) about your "feelings"
  - JaimeThompson 4y ago
    > one political segment of the population has in being forever offended by everything Which segment is that?
- cherrycherry98 4y ago
  Companies now have "inclusive language" policies. There are dashboards that track team compliance and people that cheer this stuff on. Master branch gets renamed to main meanwhile one can freely talk about how they used their MasterCard to buy a new Jazzmaster guitar that they keep in their master bedroom with a Master lock on it and they're almost done with the master of their new album showing off their mastery of musical and production that they learned taking lessons on MasterClass. Did I mention there's a cover of Master of Puppets? Think this sounds crazy? Don't read this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1675987 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1675987
  - phpisthebest 4y ago
    Looks like we know why Mozilla is falling behind, they are wasting limited dev time removing these things.. that is CRAZY!!~!!!
  - sam_goody 4y ago
    You just made me sad :( Or perhaps, temporarily happiness challenged.
    - lynx23 4y ago
      Muahahaha, well said.
- _gabe_ 4y ago
  > This shit isn't banned. Nobody stops you from using them. Speak for yourself. I had a PR rejected because I named a variable `blacklist` and was unaware that it's now considered a social faux pas. Of course, changing it to `blocklist` was simple enough, but wasted a couple hours because I had to ping the person again after finding out the PR was rejected, fixing it, retesting the code to make sure it didn't break stuff, pushing the changes, waiting for those tests to rerun, and then finally waiting for the person to re-review the code.

mrguyorama 4y ago

You can name a branch master on git to your hearts content. We still have branches named master. We still have stuff we refer to as "whitelist" even though that was never an accurate descriptor for it in the first place. This shit isn't banned. Nobody stops you from using them.

phpisthebest 4y ago
It would be unconstitutional in the US to ban it, the question or comment thread is not about being illegal to use the word.. The issue the social pressure against these terms, and the ever changing landscape one political segment of the population has in being forever offended by everything
- strix_varius 4y ago
  It's certainly not unconstitutional for organizations to ban words. It's happening every day at major tech companies.
  - phpisthebest 4y ago
    This entire comment thread should be a master class in logical fallcies as every reply shifts the goal posts back and forth.... Which i suspect is the end goal as that way no one actually have to address the underlying issues of compelled / socially enforced speech and the ongoing attacks on free expression on top of the ever shrinking mental health of the population has society coddles people into believing everyone else has to manage an individuals mental health instead of having to harden your own mind and come to terms with the fact the life is rarely fair, kind, nor do people (nor should) about your "feelings"
- JaimeThompson 4y ago
  > one political segment of the population has in being forever offended by everything Which segment is that?
cherrycherry98 4y ago
Companies now have "inclusive language" policies. There are dashboards that track team compliance and people that cheer this stuff on. Master branch gets renamed to main meanwhile one can freely talk about how they used their MasterCard to buy a new Jazzmaster guitar that they keep in their master bedroom with a Master lock on it and they're almost done with the master of their new album showing off their mastery of musical and production that they learned taking lessons on MasterClass. Did I mention there's a cover of Master of Puppets? Think this sounds crazy? Don't read this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1675987 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1675987
- phpisthebest 4y ago
  Looks like we know why Mozilla is falling behind, they are wasting limited dev time removing these things.. that is CRAZY!!~!!!
- sam_goody 4y ago
  You just made me sad :( Or perhaps, temporarily happiness challenged.
  - lynx23 4y ago
    Muahahaha, well said.
_gabe_ 4y ago
> This shit isn't banned. Nobody stops you from using them. Speak for yourself. I had a PR rejected because I named a variable `blacklist` and was unaware that it's now considered a social faux pas. Of course, changing it to `blocklist` was simple enough, but wasted a couple hours because I had to ping the person again after finding out the PR was rejected, fixing it, retesting the code to make sure it didn't break stuff, pushing the changes, waiting for those tests to rerun, and then finally waiting for the person to re-review the code.