The Django it is a community framework and we have to pay attention to that. History play a major role in our daily lives and we have to avoid any word that have racial connection. Django community is growing fast in Africa and we hate things that taking us back to Apartheid/Slave era since we believe in spirit of Ubuntu.
If the black community think certain words in English make them feel less welcome and they can justify that, please let’s change it or simply we can do whatever we like to our framework. We don't have to justify anything to anyone, we’re doing what we think it is best for our community and future Developers. Personally I think we should do our best to adopt neutral language that would be accepted by our community of black, white or whatsoever. Words like Blacklist should be avoid at all cost. I would go for deny list or deny instead of Blacklist and Allow list or accept instead of White-list. At beginning I was bothered by the word Blacklist until I get use to it, we don’t use it at the region where I came from because of the history. Let’s make the documentation more inclusive, and clearer. If there is something that needs to be changed let’s just do it while it is early. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/508a4a79-97d9-4cda-bcfe-9deaf430abc9o%40googlegroups.com.
