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by Shish2k 2170 days ago
> blacklist/whitelist are now blocklist/allowlist and so on

We did that… and then a week later, got informed that “blocklist” is still racist because it “looks similar to blacklist” and now we need to do a second refactoring to change it to “denylist”

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>ot informed that “blocklist” is still racist because it “looks similar to blacklist”

wtf?? Are we going to rename while loops too because it looks too close to "white"? Or blockchain because it looks too close to "blackchain" (slavery reference)?