The link is in your mind (not mine) and certainly not in non-sentient
software code. Scrubbing language only serves to define and sharpen the
distinction in your mind (not mine) and confuse historical development
of code (this language policing will be committed to some source repo
somewhere with your name on it, not mine, an interesting perspective on
how future generations and historians will judge our willingness to
tackle truly difficult problems of our era instead of being language
police).
What's next, an AI reproduction of M*A*S*H episode "To Market, to
Market" to remove any offensive unthink?
Maybe the real problem is that we've run out of features to build and
bugs to fix .. hey, if so, congrats I guess.
:D
On 2/24/21 11:59 AM, Kenneth Irving wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
Dnia 24.02.2021 o godz. 12:12:12 Wietse Venema pisze:
Postfix version 3.6 deprecates terminology that implies white is
better than black.
On 24.02.21 19:29, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote:
-1
I already wrote when there was a discussion about it that changing
this is a
waste of time and effort.
"Blacklist" and "whitelist" terms never had anything to do with
black/white
race. Their source is completely different (it's obvious for
everyone who
has basic cultural and philosophical education), and probably nobody
in the
world associates it with any racial context, except some
oversensitive group
of Americans.
however, the "allow" and "deny" clearly say something, while for
understanding what does "white" and "black" mean, you must have some
background (or, worse, prejudice).
To undestand any language you must have a background. Deny is a very
rude word. Whitelist and blacklist have very definite meaning, which
have nothing to do with race. All our experience and interactions are
based on prejudice. What's your point?
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