This isnt worth correcting people over and inserts a level of grievance that isnt called for. For the record I like some of the more recent phrasings - blocklist in particular is nice being that it is self describing.
Being this obnoxious won't help the cause at all. Keep using this alternative yourself when you can. Perhaps it will naturally fade out of use. For instance, you could have commented about it using "allowlist" in your own writing and it would be just natural.
Personally I'd say we have a limited bandwith to talk about prejudice in the public discourse. I'd rather we don't waste it away with useless remarks.
The comment contained a grand total of three words. If someone has this initial reaction to those words in this context, perhaps they should consider their priors.
You see, that's a problem. I'm left-wing. I'm part of minorities. I won't give up my political convictions and side with reactiona... I mean, conservatives because I'm annoyed by this focus on the raw words and not on intention.
Yet, just remarking this is enough for insinuations like yours.
Not everybody cares about this stuff. The majority of HN users come from outside the United States, as previous polls showed. Please stop trying to force us to care about your history and internal political issues, we have enough of our own.
I'm not from the United States. But am from a country that has deep racial issues. "Black" items are to be excluded/blocked, while "white" ones will be included/accepted. In a world where there are racism problems in most societies - many of which are about dark and light skin colour - this can be experienced by some as just one more implicit bias of white/black being good/bad.
The standard you walk past is the standard you accept. Happy to eat the downvotes here.
