There is basically zero upsides I can see to this changes whereas it just makes terminology more difficult to learn for beginners. Coding is already a very difficult field, there's no need to make it harder.
Why is "blocklist" or "denylist" harder to learn for beginners than "blacklist"? If anything, the approved terminology seems easier to learn, if you ask me.
It sounds like your argument is not so much about beginners learning for the first time, but experienced people needing to learn a different word for a concept they already know. I'm fairly sure I can learn what "blocklist" means with minimal effort, but perhaps that's a difficult word for some people.
I mean, really, I've asked a number of my friends who aren't too politically inclined and their reaction is a shrug. They don't really get it but they don't care to figure out why and they don't care either way because they've got stuff to do.
Is there some study about that? The concept of people being offended by these terms itself sounds ridiculous and I have a very hard time to believe it, having at least a beginning of a proof would maybe help here.
> It sounds like your argument is not so much about beginners learning for the first time, but experienced people needing to learn a different word for a concept they already know. I'm fairly sure I can learn what "blocklist" means with minimal effort, but perhaps that's a difficult word for some people.
It just creates a balkanization in IT, both terms will be used simultaneously.