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Discussion on: Do you consider the term "blacklist" a "racist" term? If yes, what is the alternative?

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Alain D'Ettorre

We should stop revisionism right now. Reviewing history and language and culture is not going to make racist people less racist

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Jon Randy πŸŽ–οΈ

Yup. It's a slippery slope. Where does it end? How long before the book burning starts?

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Felix Terkhorn

It's not gonna kill anyone if I choose to make them think for 0.3 seconds about what an "allowlist" is, tho. It's pretty obvious, and you only have to encounter it once or twice to get used to it. We're all free to use the language we choose