It reinforces black is bad and white is good.

Also, deny list and allow list are more precise terms anyway.

>Also, deny list and allow list are more precise terms anyway.

Are they? Black/whitelist feels way more natural to me. You can also say things like "blacklisted this ip" instead of "adding to the deny list" or something.

I prefer "blocklist" and "allowlist" which sound more natural to me, but you could certainly use "denylisted this IP".

That's fair. Although I still think blacklist/whitelist is more natural/easier for most people to understand.

"I allowed this ip" "I denied this ip"

that these are stored in a particular data structure isn't the important part IMO

It's really very easy. "denylisted this IP"

Add this ip to the deny list.

blacklist was never intended to mean black people, but undesired people

it doesn't reinforce the idea that black is bad and white is good, it was modelled around the idea that black is bad and white is good.

Because for humans black (dark) is bad and white (light) is good.

Black cats were considered a symbol of bad luck because they were invisible in the dark, not because they resembled black people.

Black bad and white good will remain until you feel safer in pitch BLACK night than during daylight. It has nothing to do with American socio-cultural societal illness.