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by elcomet 2197 days ago
Whitelist = allowed list (because white people were allowed in all places). Blacklist = deny list (because black people were denied in many places).
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anything to back this up? my searches mostly come up with either greeks physically using black ballots to vote to excommunicate people, or putting names in a black book in 1600s, which was usually reserved for enemies and most likely was not racially motivated.
Genuinely curious, do we have sources for the words used in a specifically racial context?