On Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 19:18 Alessio Stalla <alessiosta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, perhaps it ought to be "black" people who get to say whether they > feel offended by white/blacklist, and in that E. Kemokai's answer is very > valuable. > Some expressions are non-inclusive even if no person were to feel offended by them. The typical case against "blacklist" can be found e.g here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/styleguide/inclusive_code.md "Terms such as “blacklist” and “whitelist” reinforce the notion that black==bad and white==good. 'That Word *Black'*, by Langston Hughes <https://mcwriting11.blogspot.com/2014/06/that-word-black-by-langston-hughes.html> illustrates this problem in a lighthearted, if somewhat pointed way." This has been discussed so often online right now, it does not seem useful to discuss it again starting at zero without reference to an existing discussion. >
