Dnia 6.06.2020 o godz. 08:55:38 Ian Evans pisze: > Leah Culver (@leahculver) tweeted at 11:32 PM on Fri, Jun 05, 2020: > I refuse to use “whitelist”/“blacklist” or “master”/“slave” terminology for > computers. Join me. Words matter. > (https://twitter.com/leahculver/status/1269109776983547904?s=03)
What's next? Changing for example "green" and "red" status in network monitoring systems and alike to something "more neutral"? Because green can be associated with ecology (or peasants' political parties) and red with the communism? White and black in context of whitelists/blacklists are just colors. No associations with race whatsoever. Black color is culturally associated with the devil (and also death), and white with an angel (innocence, etc.) long before any racial conflict was taking place. There is also black and white magic, black hats and white hats in the hacker community etc. We commonly use the term "black sheep" to refer to someone whose behavior brings a bad reputation for the whole group he/she belongs to. This has also nothing to do with race. Let's not get crazy. -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa r...@rafa.eu.org -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub."
