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Censorship is getting out of hand (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Maven@lemmy.zip to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This kind of thing is infuriating. Especially when the actual etymology of "blacklist" is a 17th century play where a list of nobles scheming against the British monarchy is described as a blacklist.

[–] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

But the word black is used so clearly it's racist, right? How can we be woke if we don't randomly ban words because of their alternate meanings?