Who says they're "racially loaded"? I don't buy it. The import of extreme leftist ideology and narratives is out of control. This is a fear-driven subculture, and these moves are bizarrely orthogonal to anything to do with software development. It would never occur to me that blacklist and whitelist had any racial connotations whatsoever.
// , “It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness... but the monkey is serious because he itches."(No/No)
Who says they're "racially loaded"? I don't buy it. The import of extreme leftist ideology and narratives is out of control. This is a fear-driven subculture, and these moves are bizarrely orthogonal to anything to do with software development. It would never occur to me that blacklist and whitelist had any racial connotations whatsoever.
I wonder if the name of the "git" project will one day end up on the chopping block, because blokes in England see it as having an offensive meaning?
welcome to the world of identity politics, it's a mine field.