Linux team approves new terminology, bans terms like 'blacklist' and 'slave'
submitted 3 years ago by TruthTeller from (zdnet.com)
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[–]dashiefan 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (2 children)
You don't need to change terminology for some PC reasons. Why would one be offended by the current names? The words "blacklist" and "whitelist" have NOTHING to do with race. I don't think you would meet many (if any) people who would even think of races when they hear those words.
And "master" and "slave"... I mean, I'm not a fan of those terms (for non-SJW reasons, mind you), but they aren't offensive. They are just words that are being used non-offensively, and they seem to get the point across well enough.
I mean, I definitely prefer the new terms, but the motive behind the change is hypersensitivity. And these changes aren't as major as many other things, but you hear a lot about people doing stupid or useless stuff due to being offended over stuff that doesn't even affect them. This terminology was probably not even supposed to be offensive.
[–]TruthTeller[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
I don't know about you man! Whenever I am blacklisting a kernel module in Linux I can think of nothing else but Black Lives Matter. And if I have to white list the modules I can only think of Scandinavian blondes.
Don't even get me started on the fantasies of dominance that overcome me when I have to configure a Master Slave DNS Server. FUCK! Lick my boots you filthy slave!
I need to get away from Linux before it destroys my life.
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