For most people it’s a lot more simple and subconscious than that. White=positive, black=negative. Most people do not consciously apply this to race, but they don’t have to for the subconscious association to take root.
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KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks agothis is actually a terminology that i would be interested on seeing the historical context for actually. My assumption has always been light based “whitelist referring to a well lit room, where as blacklist refers to a completely dark room” making things easy/hard to find as a a result.
It could also literally just be a coincidence and it simply sounded better for the allow list to be whitelisted, and the deny list to be blacklisted, humans have weird connections to words like that.
Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
i would assume it’s more accurately interpreted as “white=allowed, and black=denied” but in order for that to transmit to your subconscious racism i feel like you probably need to be racist already.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
If I had to guess, it’s just the general “white=good black=bad” which itself is likely related to day/night.
But it’s easy to imagine a bouncer at a club with a list of whites allowed in and blacks that aren’t. I don’t think that’s the etymology, but it’s also important to remember that language is alive and words can take on unintended meaning.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
But it’s easy to imagine a bouncer at a club with a list of whites allowed in and blacks that aren’t. I don’t think that’s the etymology, but it’s also important to remember that language is alive and words can take on unintended meaning.
that seems like an oddly specific origination for that specific term, but it’s certainly a possibility. But as with words being alive and taking on unintended meanings, it’s also equally likely that it became skin color agnostic at some point, and the term stuck because it was already being used.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I didn’t mean that it originated with bouncers, I meant I imagined it coming to be associated with race in such a way 😅
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
yeah no i understand, i’m just saying that’s a potential point where i could’ve originated and then morphed over time. Even if it was founded on race originally, it’s not super likely it would matter today in any broader contexts.
ultramaven@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Fucking thermodynamics is racist guys
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
ironically, this is the same reason that black people are uh, black, at least i think.
Human biology and evolution is racist.
AA5B@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Are we back to the sex-based terminology?