Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
by dehrmann on Friday March 05, 2021 @12:28AM
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This is interesting. I plugged them into Google ngram viewer. Whitelist was almost unused until 2000. Blacklist came into use right after the Reconstruction era (may or may not mean anything), but it has two peaks in use: WWI and WWII. I was expecting McCarthyism, but it wasn't as popular as during major wars.
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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
by HideousKojima on Friday March 05, 2021 @01:34AM
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Blacklists's first known usage in English comes from England in the 1600's, specifically referring to a list of people who were involved in the execution of Charles I. Its origin literally has nothing to do with race.