• sping@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Black/white as bad/good is a clear case where there is a clear logical reason to change IMO. That perpetuates unconscious bias.

      • jsomae@lemmy.ml
        3·
        8 months ago

        Evil forces of darkness and good forces of light is engrained into our cultural DNA. Night=dangerous, day=safe is just something you have to learn early as a woman, it is a fact of society and we can’t pretend it isn’t.

        Dark lord, black rider, white knight… why focus on whitelist/blacklist specifically?

          • jsomae@lemmy.ml
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            8 months ago

            You’re probably right about that. It is irritating though that we’ve added more syllables.

            I’m just grumpy because I don’t like random change for no reason. I think I’m probably in the 99th percentile for how irritated I get when software or a website changes its layout. I also haven’t seen any trustworthy anecdotes of people who find the term blacklist/whitelist offensive to them, but I don’t really go looking either. Perhaps I should.