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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist,
 proposal to replace.
From: addw@phcomp.co.uk (Alain D D Williams)

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:06:17AM +0200, Eliot Lear wrote:
> Hi the peanut gallery...
> 
> I can't say that blacklist/whitelist -> something else is a meaningless
> change.  The challenge we as technologists (nevermind our color) have is
> that we don't really have good guidance from psychologists and
> sociologists (I know, I tried chasing down those links last year when
> this came up in the IETF).  The best I could find argues *against*
> change, that context matters.[1]  What I can say is that there's a lot
> of code to change if there is no appreciable social value.  My
> suggestion is that any PR/RFC include some research results showing that
> this is likely to improve something for someone.
> 
> Eliot
> 
> [1] Jay, T., "DO OFFENSIVE WORDS HARM PEOPLE?", Psychology, Public
> Policy, and Law, Vol. 15. No. 2, 81-101, 2009, DOI: 10.1037/a0015646.

I thought that I would chase that down. Unfortunately anything except the
abstract is paywalled ($15), but here is the link:

https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fa0015646

IMHO the two most interesting sentences in the absract are:

"Meanwhile, efforts to restrict speech in media and instructional settings
continue, despite the lack of a convincing need to do so. Harm from offensive
speech is contextually determined; therefore attempts to restrict speech on a
universal basis are misguided."


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