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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
Twitter drops terms master, slave and blacklist.
This is getting a little daft, are they also going to drop whitelist as well, what do you replace these with?
Etymology
Blacklist
Origins of the term The English dramatist Philip Massinger used the phrase "black list" in his 1639 tragedy The Unnatural Combat. After the Restoration of the English monarchy brought Charles II of England to the throne in 1660, a list of regicides named those to be punished for the execution of his father.
Whitelist is more recent and is just the opposite of blacklist.
The terms were not coined with any idea of race.
Could use green/red list? But does term "red" in the negative have implications for other groups and the positive use of green an bias towards non-industrial? |
The claim that anti racists group make is that when black is used, it usually has negative connotations, whilst white usually has positivity associated with it and that these ideas are transferred accross to BAME people e.g. a blacklist contains bad things and a white list contains good things.
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Originally Posted by Carth
Under representation of single dads in council houses with 4 kids to different mothers . .
. . . rushes off to get crayons & cardboard
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Years ago, 90% of lone parents were women, now It's about 94%.