Re: [RFC][Discussion] Change terminology to ExcludeList

> Am 18.06.2020 um 20:24 schrieb Lynn <kjarli@gmail.com>: > > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 3:38 PM Bob Weinand <bobwei9@hotmail.com > <mailto:bobwei9@hotmail.com>> wrote: > P.s. And to be honest, I've never heard from a dark-skinned person that they felt actually > oppressed by words like blacklist. > > And here my personal opinion, to be taken with a grain of salt: This whole white- and blacklist > discussion is mostly "hey I want to make black people feel more welcome, let me call blacklist > bad and condemn everyone not agreeing. Then I have done my good deed" - without having any > actual impact on the well-being of dark-skinned people. - That's what it feels like for me, but > I'm open to being corrected by those who are actually dark-skinned and impacted by it, in which > case I'll immediately retract my last sentence. > > Hi Bob, > > Nobody is talking about oppression when it comes to certain "technical" terms. Please > look my post from earlier and look at the tweets I link: > https://externals.io/message/110515#110574 > <https://externals.io/message/110515#110574> > > I can recommend everyone to expand their bubble, as a lot of replies in here show that the > bubbles are homogeneous. > > Regards, > Lynn Hey, yes, you are making quite the same point than I did. Maybe I misused the word _oppression_ here. But in any case, I fully agree with you. Bob