Remove blacklist terminology · Issue #6475 · osquery/osquery

Re:Remove blacklist terminology · Issue #6475 · osquery/osquery by noble_pleb on Monday June 08, 2020 @09:34AM (#23456339)

Exactly, this is just going to open up a pandora's box. What about black box testing, is that racist too? And english terms like blacksmith and black-belt?

There are terms like "blue-collar vs white-collar" too which (according to some) deems the physical labor class as inferior to the "white" intellectual class. And there are general english phrases too like "things aren't always black and white, there is a lot of grey area in between".

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Re:Remove blacklist terminology · Issue #6475 · osquery/osquery by jgwil2 on Monday June 08, 2020 @09:49AM (#23456443)

Those terms don't explicitly attach a moral value to colors in the way that the blacklist/whitelist terminology does.

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Re:Remove blacklist terminology · Issue #6475 · osquery/osquery by ThA0x2 on Saturday June 13, 2020 @12:26PM (#23510551)

Blacklist/whitelist do not attach moral values to color either. Do you have a peer reviewed study that states these words attach moral values?

Being blacklisted can be a morally good thing. An example: You can be blacklisted from a gang's kill list because you did good deeds for the neighborhood.

The only people attaching moral values to these are people trying to gaslight others into believing "black=bad".

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Re:Remove blacklist terminology · Issue #6475 · osquery/osquery by ThrowawayR2 on Monday June 08, 2020 @11:44AM (#23457556)

Then how about "black hat hacker"?

Wonder what the reaction would be if people requested that "brownout" no longer be used because it's insensitive to certain races.

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