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by Hamuko 2171 days ago
What historical baggage does whitelist/blacklist have?
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white = good black = bad

Does that seem like a great association to defend when it can trivially be changed with no confusion or loss of meaning?

Light = white Darkness = black
Educate yourself please. This narrow worldview is disingenuous and does you no Good.

Black is positive in finance.

You should read my comment more carefully: I was specifically referring to the whitelist / blacklist usage where there is no common usage reversing the relationship of the terms. I have no objection to finance using it because it’s positive and doesn’t resemble past racist usage.