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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:40:17 -0500
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Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_[PHP-DEV]_About_the_use_of_the_terms_master/slave_and_blac?=
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From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("Larry Garfield")

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, at 4:11 PM, Daniel Rodrigues Lima wrote:
> Hi Larry,
>=20
> I appreciate your answer, thank you, but i would like to clarify some =
points:
>=20
> 1. I found 170 occurrences of the term blacklist - grep -rni=20
> "blacklist" php-src/, i'm working to understand the impact of changes;=

>=20
> 2. It=E2=80=99s not about politics, i believe it=E2=80=99s about learn=
ing how to be=20
> better humans;
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> 3. I fully agree;

And yet right here you're doing it.  "It's about learning how to be bett=
er humans" implies that banishing blacklist/whitelist from your vocabula=
ry, because despite completely separate historical origins the words now=
 happen to coincide with entirely artificial racial terms[1], makes you =
a "better human" than not doing so.  Thus those who oppose the change ar=
e inferior humans to those that support it.

That may not have been your intent; I presume it is not.  But that is pr=
ecisely the message you are giving off, and it is both offensive and cou=
nter-productive to the necessary conversations that would further your g=
oal.

[1] The entire concept of "white people" and "black people" was invented=
 in colonial America as justification for enslaving one group, and for c=
onvincing poor European colonists that it was OK that they were abused b=
y rich colonists as long as they weren't black.  Europeans of different =
countries hated each other just fine back in Europe without need to use =
skin color as a justification.  All of Europe being "white" is just as m=
ade-up as all of Africa being "black." =20

--Larry Garfield