On 15.06.2020 21:44, Christos Zoulas wrote: > Hi Marc, > > When I wrote this in 2015 I did not consider the terms blacklist/whitelist > offensive, > or associated them with race.
Perpetuating this Western-centric stereotype in such renames is abusive to the white East people, that used to be on the black skin side of the human history (Slavic ethnicity has etymology in the word 'slave' - do you want to rename us?). Putting it into throats of the rest of the global East world is offensive. At least the renames won't take away the title of "the White Negroes of Europe" as given with brotherhood and respect by Jean-Jacques Dessalines to so called Polanders (and perpetuated in the Hayti constitution from 1805). The fact that Americans did not follow the Last Will of the founding father of United States Kosciuszko (Polish by origin) of liberating slaves (Jefferson the 3rd president preferred to keep the slaves for better profit) and instead vandalized his memorial in the recent days is just meaningful.
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