Hi the peanut gallery... I can't say that blacklist/whitelist -> something else is a meaningless change. The challenge we as technologists (nevermind our color) have is that we don't really have good guidance from psychologists and sociologists (I know, I tried chasing down those links last year when this came up in the IETF). The best I could find argues *against* change, that context matters.[1] What I can say is that there's a lot of code to change if there is no appreciable social value. My suggestion is that any PR/RFC include some research results showing that this is likely to improve something for someone.
Eliot [1] Jay, T., "DO OFFENSIVE WORDS HARM PEOPLE?", Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Vol. 15. No. 2, 81-101, 2009, DOI: 10.1037/a0015646.
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