Re:GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal...
by insane_dreamer on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:05PM
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Whether you like it or not, or whether you think it's insane or not, the words we use are important and impactful in themselves.
Re:GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal...
by floatrock on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:04PM
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Suits, sports cars, women, and whatever other precious alpha status symbol you seem to judge your sense of self-worth by and make metaphors with come in all the colors of rainbow, so yeah, of course that's all taste. Whitelist and blacklist is pretty dual. Black-and-white you might say. Maybe there's a third default/unspecified/null/not-quite-binary state.
But seriously, we're a bunch of engineers here... why is this so threatening to your sense of masculinity when "allowlist/denylist" are unambiguously better for no simpler reason than they're declarative?
This is preposterously pseudoscientific. Even the dumbest person has a basic a grasp of equivocity. The inability to do so suggests mental illness.
The same person who uses the word "blacklist" is very much capable of preferring the elegance of a black suit or the sleek beauty of a black sports cars or a dark pair of slacks, and dislike white suits and white sports cars or white jeans. He may prefer brunettes over blondes.
According to this reasoning, "Enlightenment" should also be renamed, as the association of "light" with good and "darkness" with evil "exclusives people" (I, too, would rename the Enlightenment, but for much more substantive reasons).
It is insane to think that the use of words like "whitelist" and "blacklist" somehow "excludes" anyone.