[plaguna]

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[McDyver]

The more we avoid terms, the more negative their connotations become, and the more we forget about history.

I would argue, without any evidence, that when terms are used and embraced, they lose their negative connotations. Because in the end, you want to fight the negativity they represent, not the term itself.

[zipliners]

Allow/deny list is more descriptive. That's one good reason for using those terms. Do you agree?

In reply to your argument, the deny list (the actual list, apart from what term we use for it) is necessarily something negatively laden, since the items denied are denied due to the real risks/costs they otherwise impose. So using and embracing the less direct phrase 'black' rather than 'deny' in this case seems unlikely to reduce negative connotations from the phrase 'black'.

[test6554]

Do some people just mentally insert the word “people” after every occurrence of the words “black” or “white” they happen across in their daily lives?

And then decide whoever used them had malicious intent?

[McDyver]

Is a zebra people with people stripes, or people with people stripes? :)

[zipliners]

I doubt it, on both accounts. Neither is needed to prefer allow/deny list though. Malicious intent was not ascribed by the comment you're replying to.

[dokyun]

Who cares?

[plaguna]

Same people who care about “master” and “main” for hit branches.