Raddle goes to war with itself
Isn’t this, by definition, all arguments ziq has with themselves on Raddle?
“allow list” and “block list” are so easy to understand
Hilariously it looks like ziq (who runs raddle), and emma (who develops it) are the main ones in that thread arguing for keeping terms like blacklist and master branch.
I don’t see why anyone would bother dying on this hill. It’s just so easy to swap words. “Oh some people find this a problem? Fair enough, we will use this instead.” simple and done.
There are many things that we all go back and forth on here but this one is just so fucking easy.
Ziq’s main objection seems to be that banning microaggressions is a slippery slope that results in wrecking campaigns which nearly destroy the site. Sounds less like a policy problem and more like a moderation problem.
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Broke: whitelist
Woke: allowlist
Bespoke: crackerlist
paper impersonating bleach demons getting mad about the most harmless “slur” in the history of humankind again
If being called cracker makes someone disinterested in socialist policy then they weren’t open to changing their views in the first place
Literally nobody but racist crackers care about “slurs” for white people, it doesn’t hurt and may in fact help in the most minuscule of ways because it’s funny watching white identitarians malding about make-believe oppression
I won’t use it and I’m not white.
Looking for a pat on the head or somethin?
Honestly I find whitelists to be an… odd way of phrasing it. There’s a reason most programmers have moved to block and allow lists. Don’t really care about crackerlist, but I find it odd that they’d still use the naming conventions of white and black lists. Changing white to cracker doesn’t make whitelists any less weird.
No idea how they give two shits about the word cracker when there is obviously a bigger issue.
9/10 crackers do not ruminate in fear and dehumanization when they’re called that because there is no policy - historical or present - to oppress them as a group of people. Rarely do people say it with complete malice and desire for violence - it’s often said lightheartedly because everyone knows that the dynamics are just completely imbalanced. At worst they’ll be annoyed for 30 seconds and forget about it.
Hell, I’d argue honkey and redneck are more “offensive” because it’s a slur for poor white people, and this subgroup has and is still being targeted by the state today. But crackers don’t want to talk about class, even when it’s them who’s suffering.
