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by tp3 1947 days ago
I use blacklist and whitelist. These ideas are a part of my consciousness. The definitions for these words as a result of this change are a conscious choice, not some accidental result of the nature of the words themselves.

I don't use it to mean "black" or "white." I use it to mean things that aren't black or white. Blocklist and allowlist don't exist because they are things. I don't think about the "Black" and "White" in these words. I think about what they mean to people. This is why you don't hear that many people complain that the use of these words in games has changed or changed. The people complaining, I think, are the people who have changed the way they think about these words.