I'm not debating, since nobody has something to say. I'm explaining, why 
things that you are doing are embarrassing.

I hoping that wikipedia will be not that populistic 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitelisting

On Saturday, June 20, 2020 at 5:32:58 PM UTC+3, Adam Johnson wrote:
>
> Alexander, it's not really up for debate any more. We've already merged 
> the PR's to Django.
>
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 13:51, Alexander Lyabah <a.l...@checkio.org 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> let's not change the subject
>>
>> we are not talking about black and white, we are talking about whitelist 
>> / blacklist and master / slave. Those statements have a big history in 
>> programming, which has nothing to do with slavery at all. 
>>
>> Don't mix words with meaning and senses.
>>
>> ... It is important to understand when you make changes like this. ... 
>> words and meaning
>>
>> I've never seen anyone who is by doing 'git checkout master', think about 
>> white race superior. - It is because master has a different meaning, 
>> different sense, which is nothing to do with slavery, and fight for freedom.
>>
>> I've never seen anyone who is by playing white in Go-game, think about 
>> white race superior. (Even though by Go-rules white gets +7.5 points 
>> against Black at the beginning of the game) - it is because white has 
>> different meaning and different sense, and it is nothing to do with 
>> slavery, and fight for freedom (it is because blacks move first).
>>
>> You have power here to do what ever you want to do in this framework. I 
>> what you to use common sense and don't follow the rules dictated by 
>> news-channels and big corporations. I want rules, you follow, being strong 
>> and independent from what is going on around. In that case you don't need 
>> to split community after next big news.
>>
>> Thank you, with all respect.
>>
>> On Friday, June 19, 2020 at 4:18:04 PM UTC+3, Tom Forbes wrote:
>>>
>>> As an international framework I think we should make our interface as 
>>> language and culturally agnostic as possible. ‘Allow’ and ‘Deny’ are simply 
>>> semantically clearer than ‘white’ and ‘black’. That alone is a convincing 
>>> argument for me.
>>>
>>> On 19 Jun 2020, at 13:55, Alexander Lyabah <a.l...@checkio.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>> Django in international framework, not US-framework. You should not 
>>> change variable names just because meaning of some words have been changed 
>>> in US recently. Those words have been used in source-code for years, and 
>>> nobody put racism in those word when this framework was founded and nobody 
>>> puts any racism in when one is using for creation something big and 
>>> meaningful.
>>>
>>> What I'm encourage you to do, is to thing farther than what is going on 
>>> right now.
>>>
>>> If Django Foundation really want to help in this revolution - add a 
>>> banner on that landing page. Feel free to choose
>>>
>>> https://eji.org/
>>> https://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6857/p/salsa/donation/common/public/
>>>
>>> And this kind of contribution will work much better.
>>>
>>> Thank you, for this opportunity to share my opinion.
>>>
>>> On Monday, June 15, 2020 at 7:28:23 PM UTC+3, Tom Carrick wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This ticket was closed wontfix 
>>>> <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/31670#ticket> as requiring a 
>>>> discussion here.
>>>>
>>>> David Smith mentioned this Tox issue 
>>>> <https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/1491> stating it had been 
>>>> closed, but to me it seems like it hasn't been closed (maybe there's 
>>>> something I can't see) and apparently a PR would be accepted to add 
>>>> aliases 
>>>> at the least (this is more recent than the comment on the Django ticket).
>>>>
>>>> My impetus to bring this up mostly comes from reading this ZDNet 
>>>> article 
>>>> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-replace-master-with-alternative-term-to-avoid-slavery-references/>
>>>>  
>>>> - it seems like Google have already made moves in this direction and 
>>>> GitHub 
>>>> is also planning to. Usually Django is somewhere near the front for these 
>>>> types of changes.
>>>>
>>>> I'm leaning towards renaming the master branch and wherever else we use 
>>>> that terminology, but I'm less sure about black/whitelist, though right 
>>>> now 
>>>> it seems more positive than negative. Most arguments against use some kind 
>>>> of etymological argument, but I don't think debates about historical terms 
>>>> are as interesting as how they affect people in the here and now.
>>>>
>>>> I don't think there is an easy answer here, and I open this can of 
>>>> worms somewhat reluctantly. I do think Luke is correct that we should be 
>>>> concerned with our credibility if we wrongly change this, but I'm also 
>>>> worried about our credibility if we don't.
>>>>
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