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antiRadical··on Blacklist is not a racist word
> regardless of what ideology you're for or against

This is totally untrue and everybody knows that.

antiRadical··on Blacklist is not a racist word
You're wrong. Do you know the origin of political correctness? Stalin and Nazis loved that.

"Blacklist is racist" is indeed a dangerous overstatement.

antiRadical··on Blacklist is not a racist word
I'd say those people who suddenly make innocent common words "racist" are the assholes. They're extremely privileged and act like a totalitarian regime. What's scary is that they believe they're on the right side.
antiRadical··on Blacklist is not a racist word
> Is it really so hard to see that the continued usage of "black = bad, white = good" could be problematic?

Why could it be problematic? That association exists in every culture and language. If you know that and you still hate it, the optimal solution would be not to call Europeans/Caucasians "white" and Africans/Negroids "black." It's as simple as that. Why do you want to keep calling people by color?

antiRadical··on Blacklist is not a racist word
No it's not. Whitelist was coined after blacklist.
antiRadical··on Blacklist is not a racist word
> it has racist connotations

Come on, everybody knows this is not true.

antiRadical··on Blacklist is not a racist word
"Maincard"
antiRadical··on Blacklist is not a racist word
Apparently "blacklist" is not a racist word.
antiRadical··on Merge tag 'inclusive-terminology' into Linux kernel
https://github.com/words-matter/blacklist-whitelist-are-not-...