Is the term blacklisted racist? (1 Viewer)

[tomwaits]

You just earned yourself a stint in the re-education camp, bub

If it has smores, I'm in!

Also, anytime I hear the word bub, I always think Wolverine, so that is who I pictured telling me that.

 

[Charlie Brizzown]

We are having a discussion at work to remove the term blacklist (and whitelist) from software development documentation and processes because its racist.

Here is some more context: In a software updater program, we will have some drivers blacklisted to not update.

If the company didn’t say they were making the change because they thought it was racist, but instead said they were making the change because they wanted to do their part in no longer associating black with bad and white with good, would anyone feel differently about the change?

 

[Dago]

NBC hopes not

NBC racist yo

 

[DaveXA]

NBC racist yo

If everyone is racist, then no one is.

 

[tomwaits]

If everyone is racist, then no one is.

Racism has such a wide spectrum.

It can be that you have sub-conscious, barely detectable bias towards or against a specific race or just that some people have that perception; all the way to, you want a race completely destroyed and you are making it your life goal to do so.

So when someone says something is racist, you have to think where on the scale it is.
blacklist - arguably not on the scale
crazy German vegetarian - probably pretty far on the scale

 

[Bronson]

If you are a white person, it's time to stop using black emojis, gifs, and memes

'Yasss, queen!', 'Hell, no!': Here's how Black-caricature GIFs can reinforce racism, as 'digital blackface'

The growing popularity among non-Black users of GIFs that feature Black people has given rise to a new term: "digital blackface." Yahoo spoke to UC Berkeley student Erinn Wong about her research on what that means.

www.yahoo.com

TLDR: It is the digital equivalence of blackface, cultural appropriation, and "taking up space"

 

[rajncajn]

If you are a white person, it's time to stop using black emojis, gifs, and memes

'Yasss, queen!', 'Hell, no!': Here's how Black-caricature GIFs can reinforce racism, as 'digital blackface'

The growing popularity among non-Black users of GIFs that feature Black people has given rise to a new term: "digital blackface." Yahoo spoke to UC Berkeley student Erinn Wong about her research on what that means.

www.yahoo.com

TLDR: It is the digital equivalence of blackface, cultural appropriate, and "taking up space"

Sigh

 

[Bronson]

Why ice cream trucks could be changing their jingle

The new jingle will replace "Turkey in the Straw," a tune with a racist history.

news.yahoo.com

 

[kizzy821]

Why ice cream trucks could be changing their jingle

The new jingle will replace "Turkey in the Straw," a tune with a racist history.

news.yahoo.com

The new jingle is cute. It's amazing how many things white people used for racist purposes. There's probably a thousand other instances of this.

 

[Optimus Prime]

The new jingle is cute. It's amazing how many things white people used for racist purposes. There's probably a thousand other instances of this.

I remember years ago a couple flight stewards (southwest?) got some Attention because a passenger complained about them singing “eeny meeny miney moe, catch a tiger by the toe”

Apparently the original lyrics was catch a “n-word” instead of tiger which I didn’t know and don’t know how many people do

Edit: found it, happened in 2003

Southwest Sued Over Nursery Rhyme

www.google.com

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I remember years ago a couple flight stewards (southwest?) got some Attention because a passenger complained about them singing “eeny meeny miney moe, catch a tiger by the toe”

Apparently the original lyrics was catch a “n-word” instead of tiger which I didn’t know and don’t know how many people do

Edit: found it, happened in 2003

Southwest Sued Over Nursery Rhyme

www.google.com

If that was written today, pretty sure whoever wrote that article would be looking for work about now
Even though I agree that the lawsuit was a bit much

 

[rajncajn]

Why ice cream trucks could be changing their jingle

The new jingle will replace "Turkey in the Straw," a tune with a racist history.

news.yahoo.com

That's much better than the old one. In my older age I've gotten to where I hate the sound of the ice cream truck.

 

[rajncajn]

I remember years ago a couple flight stewards (southwest?) got some Attention because a passenger complained about them singing “eeny meeny miney moe, catch a tiger by the toe”

Apparently the original lyrics was catch a “n-word” instead of tiger which I didn’t know and don’t know how many people do

Edit: found it, happened in 2003

Southwest Sued Over Nursery Rhyme

www.google.com

I've heard it both ways, but honestly always thought the original and true version was tiger.

 

[Optimus Prime]

If that was written today, pretty sure whoever wrote that article would be looking for work about now
Even though I agree that the lawsuit was a bit much

I thought the same thing reading the article