It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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Whitelist and Blacklist is on that stack as well.

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this is actually a terminology that i would be interested on seeing the historical context for actually. My assumption has always been light based “whitelist referring to a well lit room, where as blacklist refers to a completely dark room” making things easy/hard to find as a a result.

It could also literally just be a coincidence and it simply sounded better for the allow list to be whitelisted, and the deny list to be blacklisted, humans have weird connections to words like that.

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Fucking thermodynamics is racist guys

Black absorbs, white reflects

Blackhole, sun

fuck these people

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Are we back to the fetish-based terminology?

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ironically, this is the same reason that black people are uh, black, at least i think.

Human biology and evolution is racist.

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If I had to guess, it’s just the general “white=good black=bad” which itself is likely related to day/night.

But it’s easy to imagine a bouncer at a club with a list of whites allowed in and blacks that aren’t. I don’t think that’s the etymology, but it’s also important to remember that language is alive and words can take on unintended meaning.

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But it’s easy to imagine a bouncer at a club with a list of whites allowed in and blacks that aren’t. I don’t think that’s the etymology, but it’s also important to remember that language is alive and words can take on unintended meaning.

that seems like an oddly specific origination for that specific term, but it’s certainly a possibility. But as with words being alive and taking on unintended meanings, it’s also equally likely that it became skin color agnostic at some point, and the term stuck because it was already being used.

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Bro I fucking said “whitelist” in a meeting and got so many glares, fuck all of these fucking uneducated pieces of shit that can only punch down because they know nothing except “DATS RACIST”

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