[BlueOnyx:24095] Re: Whitelist / Blacklist terminology

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Michael,

> I hope this does not come across as too PC for some people but I would
> like to humbly request that as new updates are made this project
> consider replacing the Whitelist/Blacklist terminology in favor of
> denylist/allowlist or blocklist/passlist.

Thank you very much for respectfully bringing this forward and for
combining it with a donation. That gesture is much appreciated.

However, I just issued a refund in full and I choose to (equally
respectfully) decline this request.

I am very historically and politically minded and I do have a very
strong fact based and well informed opinion on current world events. Yet
I keep this entirely separate from my business activity, because I
despise *any* company (or organization) that endeavors on the ill
advised and divisive path of mixing business and politics, as it will
always alienate or exclude and divide instead of uniting people under a
common cause.

But in order to explain *why* I outright reject this proposal I'll have
to (for once) open up that can of worms and she a comment on the current
"Zeitgeist" of state of affairs.

> The Linux team have just made the same change and I think it is a good
> idea to follow suit.

No, it is not. It is shallow virtue signalling to appease a bunch of
sensitive snow flakes, political hacktivists, the black looters matter
mob, leftist statue tumblers, book burners and neo-Marxist revivalists
that are sure that socialism will work *this* time. Who are absolutely
willing to sacrifice your life and livelihood for it, because they don't
know how anything works. Nor do they know history or are able to
analyze, deduct or process its mistakes.

It may harmlessly start with "white-/blacklist", but it won't stop
there. Recall that the GUI has nine different languages. If I appease to
*this* (trivial) nonsense, then next I know I'll be hunted by a mob of
German Karen's and Kevin's that want me to change all articles and
pronouns to reflect absolute gender neutrality. Which (for a few years)
has been the new fad of German leftists and tree huggers who haven't
worked a day in their life.

Then who's next? The French? The Spanish? For example I know there *are*
some phrases in Castilian Spanish that rub Latin-Americans easily the
wrong way. I doubt the machine translated Spanish UI we have is entirely
free of that. None of that is intentional nor does it reflect our
agenda, because we have none.

BlueOnyx is not political, knows no race or color or gender and doesn't
care what creed (if any) someone has.

However: I'll not invest a minute of my work into appeasing a
remote-controlled flash-mob of Karen's and Kevin's who shed fake tears
over articles and pronouns so they can stroke their own ego and
self-importance.

Michael, I know where this comes from and I am sorry for anyone who has
to deal with clients like that. I don't hold it against you that someone
brought this up and you passed the buck on to me. To the contrary: I'm
thankful you brought it up so that I can draw the line in the sand once
and for all.

Bring me the bugs and I fix them. But I can't fix stupid. Nor would I
even try.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber