The term is used to describe a list of things that are disallowed. So the connotation is a bit racist. “Allow list” serves the same purpose without and is being widely adopted in the software industry.

Meanwhile brown-nosing is like kowtowing or kissing up too. The connotation of that is that your nose is up their ass and you got shit on it.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

The connotation of that is that your nose is up their ass and you got shit on it.

Ohhh I thought it was a reference to that Gabriel Dropout episode where Raphiel got Satania to dress up as a reindeer

[–] SadArtemis@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

“Allow list” serves the same purpose without and is being widely adopted in the software industry.

Outside of programming, "blocklist" would probably make more sense for most normal uses of the word (blocking people out of credit/rent/employment/etc).

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

allow is the more descriptive replacement for whitelist, dunno why op switched from blacklist -> blocklist, they serve similar purposes but the inversion of the default is pretty important

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I see. even if the term itself wasn't created to be racist (at least the direct evidence for use against black and enslaved people isn't certain) the use of "black" in the context especially vs "white" reinforces existing racial hierarchies

edit: moreover it was used against labor and is basically a bourgeois term