Github says it will replace the terms whitelist, blacklist, and master/slave for being racially insensitive

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A hot potato: Days after it was reported that more tech companies and insiders were calling for racially insensitive terms such as whitelist, blacklist, and master/slave to be replaced, Github has revealed it would be removing these words from its service.

Github CEO Nat Friedman said the firm was working to replace the terms ‘master’ and ‘slave’ with the likes of ‘main/default/primary’ and ‘secondary.’ Users will also find ‘blacklist’ and ‘whitelist’ dropped for ‘allow list’ and ‘deny/exclude list,’ writes ZDNet.

The announcement came soon after reports of renewed calls to drop the long-used tech terms following the death of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Live

 

[Vitali Ortzi]

How is it racist ?

 

[plat]

Well, the way I see it: "blacklist" has a negative connotation. It's exclusionary. "Whitelist" means accepted. So, one can subconsciously ascribe it to the general racist mindset, ie: black is "negative," white is "positive." Masterlist--master. It has connotations related to slavery.

In this single context, it's a good change and not too awkward to adopt. But like with anything, you can get silly and phony and overdo things for the sake of correctness. It's a volatile time alright.... but the murals of George Floyd can touch your heart. Have the ones in charge learned anything yet?

 

[oldschool]

I'm a card-carrying Commie, but even I think this is going overboard. They're common technical terms with long-standing usage. M$ is simply jumping on the PR bandwagon.

 

[SumTingWong]

This is way too seriously and ridiculous.

 

[bayasdev]

Computers are our slaves (for now?), so it isn't racist in any way cause we aren't referring to human beings, SJWs are always misunderstanding things to get excuses for their acts.

 

[oldschool]

SJWs

What are these?

 

[SumTingWong]

Computers are our slaves (for now?), so it isn't racist in any way cause we aren't referring to human beings, SJWs are always misunderstanding things to get excuses for their acts.

Soon you will be consider to be racist when someone ask you do you like color black and you say no. Welcome to modern society where you cannot make a simple joke without someone feeling getting hurt.

 

[misterman2100]

What are these?

Social justice warriors.

 

[Vitali Ortzi]

Computers are our slaves (for now?), so it isn't racist in any way cause we aren't referring to human beings, SJWs are always misunderstanding things to get excuses for their acts.

exactly!

 

[Andy Ful]

After some time they will have to change these terms (master/slave) because of the obvious discrimination of sadists and masochists.
Furthermore, the slave would be a poor replacement for black, bearing in mind the history of America.

 

[show-Zi]

♀Relationships that can only be established as a pair♂The names of connector terminals that have cleared the problem of gender discrimination are excellent.

I think the question isn't the word, but the feeling of discrimination when using the word. To me, word regulation seems like a simple performance.

 

[Tiny]

This is just absolutely ridiculous. Being politically correct will soon be equated with stupidity.

 

[ChoiceVoice]

oh brother. oops, that's sexist, i mean oh sister. oops, that's gendering ... umm, how abouts oh human.