Hi George, nice to hear from you :-) On Wed 2020-07-15 @ 12:58:20 PM, George McCollister wrote: > If people find the terms whitelist/blacklist offensive I encourage > them to communicate this to the community. Other than the obvious > (which seems may be a coincidence?) I don't understand these words to > have racial connotations based on my interpretation of the etymology.
>From an etymological point of view the original, and only, meaning of the word "sinister" was "left-handed"! Consider how the meaning of that simple word has changed over time wrt people's aversion and hostility towards left-handed people! Unfortunately I don't think the etymology is relevant. It would be strange to name a variable, for example, "sinister" if your only intent was to say it represented something on the left side of a project :-)
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