[luckylion]

> The whitelist/blacklist thing is a bit of a no-brainer, that one should change.

Why though, it has nothing to do with skin color. Black and white, grey area, there are lots of things involving these colors, but they aren't about skin color, they're about opposites. And there are plenty of other things including color, e.g. black hole, white vest, carte blanche, but they're not about skin color either.

[roenxi]

White & black skin are, practically, inherent qualities that a person can't really do much about. The argument that associating linking the properties to 'good' and 'bad' could make people feel uncomfortable makes sense to me. People (as evidenced by today's headline) do struggle to keep things separate in their head.

[ThrowawayR2]

> "The argument that associating linking the properties to 'good' and 'bad' could make people feel uncomfortable makes sense to me. "

Then advocates of this should also be campaigning to stop using yellow as the color to indicate warnings, since it's insensitive to Asian-Americans.

But we all know they aren't going to.

[roenxi]

Asians aren't yellow though.

[luckylion]

And Africans aren't black, and Caucasians aren't white. Surprisingly, Native Americans aren't red!