> On Jul 21, 2020, at 3:16 PM, Robert Schetterer <r...@sys4.de> wrote:
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> Am 21.07.20 um 21:07 schrieb Bill Cole:
>> 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.
>
> Hi @ll, can we focus on tec problems again ?
The thread is marked “OT” unlike the outbursts from the crew of warriors
against “cultural marxism” that are crapping on every thread…
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