But you see, I would forbid using these terms because there’s no such thing as yellowlist or greenlist. Whereas blacklist and whitelist are common, widely, internationally accepted and understood words that are way beyond tech, race, social and politics.
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Let’s abolish the conotation/denotation of green for money, red for prosperity, blue for sadness, yellow for warnings, red for forbidden altogether!
These examples are not "internationally accepted". In fact, if they were, prosperity would be forbidden, wouldn't it?
Colours have different connotations in different cultures already. They don't need to be part of the name for anything else; we don't benefit from the metaphor.
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But you see, I would forbid using these terms because there’s no such thing as yellowlist or greenlist. Whereas blacklist and whitelist are common, widely, internationally accepted and understood words that are way beyond tech, race, social and politics.
These examples are not "internationally accepted". In fact, if they were, prosperity would be forbidden, wouldn't it?
Colours have different connotations in different cultures already. They don't need to be part of the name for anything else; we don't benefit from the metaphor.