On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 3:11 PM Trevor Woerner <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
The change in the meaning of sinister is reflected in all major English language dictionaries. This is not the case with whitelist/blacklist. I really question if this is just a misunderstanding. > > 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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