Is it worth it to fracture the nomenclature of a huge body of software
work .. on a lark? Shouldn't a person lose credibility for doing
something like that so deviant from main stream common sense (colloquial
logic)?
I mean, it's not like we're saying
var n****r = new DarkColorsOffendMe();
n****r.eraseTheWhites();
I would ask that something like this not be included in the repo for
sure. It's common sense.
But white list and dark list? This is referring to light's property
that it illuminates and allows visual information to pass.
I would implore anyone considering this meaningless censorship to
reconsider.
Come back off the ledge, for this is /the/ path to darkness and evil.
:D
One would also be documenting /forever /that one can't do basic logic,
and that one did virtually nothing with the time and effort to combat
real discrimination. You'll be the intellelectual Bill Buckner of your
descendants, because this intellectual challenge is a slow moving grounder.
We all came from Africa. And some of us do better logic for some
reason. Maybe it was the Winters being couped-up and having lots of
time to think that associates the lack of melanin with so many amazing
inventions. Who knows .. I do know that changing a variable name in
this fashion does virtually nothing to advance the cause of anyone, nor
does attacking and demonizing some of our lighter colored earthlings for
coming out of this mother or that mother or having mastered this skill
or that skill. If it's biased examples of malfeasance you feel
compelled to point to, I can show you plenty emanating from every skin
color.
Try me.
Word policing has the opposite of the intended effect.
Stop now before you destroy us all. :)
Sincerely,
John Dale, MS MIS
Spearfish City Limits Host
https://PlainsTribune.com
https://DB2DOM.COM
On 2/24/21 8:10 PM, j...@nunyuh.net wrote:
"...other folks could go take a hike..."
Indeed they could - just as they can now...
"So, whose code is it?"
The 'they' that own it...in this specific case, my guess is Wietse...
"...who organically came to the terms white/black list..."
Or really believe that context truly matters which leads them to
understand that white & black in a piece of software config or log
file has nothing to do with past or present social abuses and the
quest for justice...
On 2021-02-24 21:53, John Dale wrote:
"the right of devs to use whatever nomenclature they desire"
That's it. That's the thing. I suppose if it was my code and I
wanted to make that change other folks could go take a hike.
So, whose code is it?
If it were my code and I were dead (interesting prospect), I would try
to lay curses from the afterlife on those who would so arrogantly
rewrite my legacy (for better or for worse). I suppose that also
applies to the millions of humans who organically came to the terms
white/black list.
The dev that overrides all of them is a (or feels like a) God
(pronounced in a Wharf voice "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!")
On 2/24/21 7:47 PM, j...@nunyuh.net wrote:
the right of devs to use whatever nomenclature they desire
