[BlueOnyx:24097] Re: Whitelist / Blacklist terminology

[Christoph Schneeberger]

I will resist my urge to post any statement that further divides the 
community, but I have to voice my strong support for everything Michael 
Stauber said.

Let's concentrate here on making BX even better than it already is.


On 7/12/20 01:48, Michael Stauber wrote:
> 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.
>