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coffeeaddict@lemm.ee 11 months agoDo these terms actually come from racist backgrounds, or did they come up as a coincidence?
Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish
coffeeaddict@lemm.ee 11 months agoDo these terms actually come from racist backgrounds, or did they come up as a coincidence?
FMT99@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No. It’s a coincidence.
Happenchance@lemmy.world 11 months ago
While the term blacklist does not originate from racist history, it has certainly been adopted by racists before computers, while terms like master and slave have clear links to slavery as a human history: in either case the terms along with others were found to be offensive to a large population and have since been changed to reflect human decency.
FMT99@lemmy.world 11 months ago
On “master” and “slave” I could be convinced. Those are directly potentially offensive terms. They’re also terms that went out of use when we stopped using IDE drives 20-ish years ago as far as I’m aware, but there may still be specific fields where they’re used.
But to ban the word “black” because it was adopted by racists feels kind of ridiculous. Aren’t we giving these racists a little too much power?
EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Master and slave are still used, like in brake cylinders I think.
Happenchance@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“White Good, Black Bad” is a pretty easy case to win when it comes to the “should we consider changing how we speak to not look like an asshole” debate.
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 11 months ago
The flame war over this is still very much alive in electronics engineering for things like SPI buses.
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Changed… but have nothing to do with the other.
It’s like complaining that the Spanish word for black is “niger”. Best go change that, eh?
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well it isn’t, but maybe in French I would guess. In Spanish, it’s negra/o.