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What reasons?

I can't comment on the parent here because its dead, but I just want to add:

I think the intent behind the original comment is coming from a good place and I agree that its sentiment is good, but also is it not obvious that trying to police other people's language is going to do nothing but increase division and resentment amongst your peers? Especially when the intent is so obviously not racist or exclusionary. I invite you to ask each one of your friends/family to honestly tell you if the sentence "I have blacklisted that website" makes them feel personally excluded or discriminated against.

Describing something negative with the black color is related to racist mindset, in short.

Thank you Abimelex for pointing this out

I disagree. It has nothing to do with race. Even in societies where blacks didn’t exist, black has symbolized bad, evil things. It is ridiculous to say a color cannot mean something negative just because it has the same name as a race of people. I also doubt the rest of the world feels using black this way is racist. It seems to be an opinion held only by coddled American minds still trying to cope with the trauma of learning that everything they enjoy about their country was built on the backs of black slave labor.

> everything they enjoy about their country was built on the backs of black slave labor.

And that isn't true either, and to the extent it is, you can point to any other country and find something terrible in its past if you go back far enough. Man's inhumanity to man is universal, not exclusive to America.

So the point is, using the term blacklist isn’t problematic.

This isn't mentioned on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklist

There are no etymological reasons suggesting this.

see: https://inclusivenaming.org/faqs/

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