On 21 Jul 2020, at 14:06, Grant Taylor wrote:
On 7/21/20 11:56 AM, Bill Cole wrote:
All answers: "NO!" In those cases, "black" and "white" all reference
actual colors of physical things, not a metaphorical value judgment.
Hum. Your "value judgement" statement is interesting.
The original meaning of blacklist that I found seems to be exactly
that, a value judgement on if it was okay / safe to do business with
people / businesses or not. Specifically if someone (independent of
race) was unsafe to do business with, they were added to the
blacklist.
Precisely.
That usage is problematic because in many (most? all?) Anglophone
societies, "Black" is an ethno-racial label. In some cases (UK, US,
probably more) it is accepted and internalized as an identity by those
thus labeled. This creates a naming collision with the usage of "black"
and "white" as metaphorical labels for value judgments.
The degree of annoyance caused by that collision of connotations varies
widely.
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