Other connotations of the word blacklist include the blacklisting of labor activists and of accused communists during our multiple bouts of anti communist hysteria. The word is charged with ugly meanings and there’s no reason to throw it around casually in a software project.
Somehow we have no issues with master/slave. Most people (except failed students and former party members) know communism was a really really shitty system. And most of the current racial issues are imported from america, during the democrats-vs-trump "battles", and are so americanized, that people forget minorities here (gypsies,...), and use BLM for maybe 10 black people that live here.
There are living people in USA who were around for the segregation.
Are there any documented cases of the word "master" offending anybody?
It is not only about colour but about racial identity.
This article describe this case:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/25/race-east-ja...
Why instead of changing tech wording affecting every dev worldwide who does not care about american pseudo social justice, just do not call dark er skin „black“ and brighter skin „white“?
I mean still more people are afraid in the absence of light, hence the dark, than otherwise. And „white“ is often associated with clean, pure. There are psychological effects we can‘t just ignore.
Better just stop associating this pink skin with „white“ and darker skin with „brown“ or „black“.
I mean I still have to see a „white“ person and a „black“ person in real life.
For god‘s sake. Stop finding problems where there are none. Corporate trolling has reached the next level.