On Sat, 2020-06-06 at 19:12 +0200, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: > Black color is culturally associated with the devil (and also death), > and white with an angel (innocence, etc.)
in your culture. have you tried checking other cultures? > Let's not get crazy. I agree with you. It applies to all sides of the debate. For the technical debate, which is relevant here, colors are/were a coded abstraction that is unnecessary. Using more precise, meaningful terms such as allow/deny reduces ambiguity, improves readability, does not make the text significantly longer and should be uncontroversial (other than the pain of migrating configuration files and the likes, which can be mitigated with appropriate deprecation periods). For the political debate... it's the twitterization of language. White is RGB(255,255,255) and Black is RGB(0,0,0). Or it can be expressed in photon's wavelength. White/Black is not race. Colours were used as an approximation of race, not the other way around. Imposing race as the definition of the words will make language worse, not better. I appreciate and support the intention, but in my view, putting people in boxes (white, black, whatever) only increases racisms, and detracts from the ability of a language to describe facts such as reflected wavelengths. But then, this is the twitterization of language, and soon there will be emojis only because of raising analphabetismus and the lazyness of imperfect definitions. 2c -- Yuval Levy, JD, MBA, CFA Ontario-licensed lawyer
