On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 03:44:22PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote: > We should be all doing whatever we can to correct social/race/gender/sex > injustices/prejudices around us, and every little bit helps.
I am a great fan of bla^Hocklistd and I'd be happily using it even if you name it say timbuktud. But I think we are stretching above argument a bit too far. By any stretch of imagination I couldn't find any trace of racist link in a very commonly used word in Comp Sc like blacklist. Even tried searching its origin[1] and doesn't look like it has anything to do with any race. Just a quick grep in an arbitrary snapshot of the source tree of NetBSD shows the word 'black' appearing at 4146 places... There are `blackholes', `blackballs', `blacklist' (other than in bla^Hocklistd's code), blackfin (of course some like this are not names chosen by NetBSD but of 3rd party hardware, such as a processor or a company name), `black magic', `blackjack', `blackboard', `blackbook', `blackbox', `blackcrow', `blackberry', `black cathedral', `black helicopter', `black tree' ... And I am done only with 6% of the grep output. Mayuresh [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting
