[BlueOnyx:24096] Re: Whitelist / Blacklist terminology

[Michael Aronoff]

Wow, I must say I am surprised by your response. For me this is NOT
political at all. It is simply a realization that the idea of Black always
being used in reference to BAD things does seem like something that should
be changed.

I mean from my perspective I always look to hurt people the least. This is a
simple change that would reduce any possible negative association. And while
I get your worry about betting flooded with requests that is why I made a
donation to go along with my request. I did not want it to seem like I was
"demanding" anything. I thought it was a good idea and was happy to pay for
the time.

I do not know your ethnicity or background but here in the US this is not
just a thing "of the moment". No is it "Karen's" demanding this. Our country
was literally build by slave labor and that is a stain that many people are
coming to realize we have never fully grappled with. 

As Chris said denylist/allowlist is simply more accurate as well.

However I do not want to create drama so I respect your decision. I would
simply ask that you reconsider if your anger at "Political Correctness" has
not pushed you away from a good idea.

I am also going to make the donation once again but this time there are no
strings attached at all. I appreciate all you have done for this community
so use the money as you see fit.

Thank You,

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-----Original Message-----
From: Blueonyx <blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it> On Behalf Of Michael
Stauber
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2020 4:49 PM
To: blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it
Subject: [BlueOnyx:24095] Re: Whitelist / Blacklist terminology

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.

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With best regards

Michael Stauber
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