Rust team is going to replace whitelist with allowlist

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I agree with the sentiment, but worry that lots of people are doing this and each group is using different names. I wish we would come to a consensus.

For me, I'd prefer stoplight colors. Redlist for stopped, Greenlist for those who can go through, and maybe even Yellow list who can go through but maybe have limited permissions or increased security.

Red and Yellow have their own problems when associated with skin color. It's unfortunate that this is now seen as problematic because the origins of the term blacklist have absolutely nothing to do with skin color or racism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting

There are plenty of words that do have their roots in racism, but this isn't one of those, but 'black=bad' and 'white=good' is definitely something that you don't want to reinforce.

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