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• tleb@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Whitelist and blacklist were indeed cancelled despite having no racial origin.

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  • tonarinokanasan@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There are cultural traditions of using colors as symbols, many of which are harmless – red for anger, blue for sadness, green for envy. Whitelist and blacklist come from the very long-standing theme of using white to represent good and black to represent evil.

    Regardless of how you feel about the origin of those themes, it makes sense to start moving away from them now. Whether intentional or not, they can be harmful and aren’t really necessary.

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    • Reliant1087@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Let’s also start removing phrases with white, yellow and brown as those are used to refer to people’s skin colour as well.

      The only reason I would even contemplate not using blacklist or white washing is if an actual person of that skin colour says that it is not okay for them, or there’s an actual consensus among people of that community that it isn’t acceptable.

      I can tell you as a person with brown skin, with brownie or whatever used as a derogatory name, almost everyone I know isn’t even concerned with terms like brown out or brown note.

      Online outrages or articles aren’t an accurate depiction of reality.

      Even more dangerously, shit like this drives outrage and diverts attention from actual, real issues faced by people of different races. Like not having stuff to eat or indoor plumbing or mental health infrastructure or access to health care.

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      • shiii@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The only people being outraged are people like you when someone is using a different word.

        I watched an ig reel that said people react to anything different to them either with fear or judgement. Get over yourself, have some empathy, and move on.

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    • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      not only that but whitelist-blacklist are just bad names.

      even greenlist-redlist would be better (at least while we have light signals at intersections) as green means go red means stop are more universally understood.

      but allowlist and blocklist are just plain better, they are self explanatory words. you don’t need to learn what they mean since it’s right there in the name.

      whitelist-blacklist are names where you need to learn the meaning of them, sticking to them just because they were used in the past is not the best argument.

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      • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m fairly certain the term “blacklist” came before traffic lights

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      • HelloHotel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Words often work like unique signifiers “symbols”, often by using them you learn them and dont question it. Thats a neutral phenomenon. It has advantages and disadvantages. Mainly, redlist is as disconnected from meaning as blacklist is. Requiring the understanding of what a “car” is, and why they cant “wheel their way” thru a cross shaped road becuse of a collored light being there.

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      • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They came from voting in ancient Athens were people had a white ball and a black ball. You put one or the other into a jar, a black was a no vote, white was yes. It has never had anything to do with race. If it bothers you change the words for skin color instead then.

        “whitelist-blacklist are names where you need to learn the meaning of them”

        You could say this about every word. All language is based on past usage.

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    • HelloHotel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Never liked these debates as “making the words comfortable (to myself, others or both)” (from both sides) matters most. Personally, Allowlist and blocklist “just work” (no discomfort). Blacklist and Whitelist are natural feeling and I fully understood the boilerplate reason. For that I can respect depricating the word but banning it (if thats even the goal) is uncomfortable. For now I subconciosly use what word was already there.

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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They are sort of necessary because people understand what they mean. How about we change the words for skin color instead.

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• bright_side_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s common since quite a few years. And blocklist as counterpart

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• towerful@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s not been cancelled.
  I’m sure someone raised concerns over racist origins, or that they were uncomfortable with the terms. Or perhaps programmers did it themselves as a part of introspection that came around with GitHub changing from “master branch” to “main branch”.

  Which likely lead people to realise that blacklist and whitelist aren’t really descriptive.
  Blacklist came from the 1600s, regarding regicide. And the opposite of that is obviously whitelist.
  But it doesn’t actually describe what it’s doing, and ultimately it is an idiom.
  Removing idioms in coding is generally good practice.
  And you can have other things like “FilterList” or “AdminList” or whatever.

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• Apirate4life@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ever heard of newspeak? Yeah it’s real now, not just fictional anymore.

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• YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You are predictably behind the curve

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