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Censorship is getting out of hand (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have a friend that works at Salesforce, he told me that they made him change the name of some classes that used the term Blacklist because of inclusivity

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My previous workplace did the same thing around 2020 with the words whitelist and blacklist and some other words.

It was around the same time when there was news about GitHub moving from master to main/mainline as the default Git branch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This kind of thing is infuriating. Especially when the actual etymology of "blacklist" is a 17th century play where a list of nobles scheming against the British monarchy is described as a blacklist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

But the word black is used so clearly it's racist, right? How can we be woke if we don't randomly ban words because of their alternate meanings?