> > In this word developers said "We 100% support BLM, we against any racism. > Some of community members have sent proposal for renaming blacklist, but we > 100% sure, that this term has nothing to do with racism. Moreover, terms > can't explain things 100% clear, we just use those terms to explain things > faster. Because we are here is not for inventing and reinventing new terms, > we are here for building new things. Let me explain in example. When one > dev from US said to another dev from France - "don't forget to add > blacklist functionality here", that explains a lot, because term blacklist > is commonly known term. Someone, from community have an idea to rename all > blacklist in source code to allowlist, and don't use term "blacklist" at > all. Well in that case when dev from France will ask "allowlist is a list > which is allowed to be expended? Or allowlist is a list that is allowed to > be used by other lists?", the US-dev will answer "No, don't use read > US-newspapers? allowlist is the same as blacklist but without racism", > thats why we don't want to reinvent terms for what ever reason. Thank you > for understanding" >
"blacklist" isn't as widely understood as you presume, and if you survey people (but I can't provide the source i have seen in the past) you will find that more people understand what it means to "deny" than to "blacklist". QED. But in the same world astrophysicists haven't been that wise, so they > claimed: "We 100% support BLM, we against any racism. Thats why we decide > not to use term "black hole" instead we will use term "heavy thing", we've > asked a lot of other astrophysicists and they all agree that "heavy thing" > explains thing better, of course, we are not following for renaming trend, > we are here for science, it is just a good time to rename something that we > have planed to rename long time ago. Remember, this all is for future > generation of astrophysicists not for current generation, because we think, > that the next generation will be much dumber and we should help them to > understand new terms" > >> >> That's a facetious argument - black holes are named for their color. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CALzH9quLEbWPn9FHYfs6NQtTKpZBDSeRCmwj8H84-bSvqWmkTg%40mail.gmail.com.
