Move away from blacklist and whitelist about powershell-featureflags

[lupino3]

Do you have any reference for your claim that it was "never used as an abusive word against black people"? Or that the "origins have nothing to do with black people?"

Because there is etymological research that states the opposite: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148600/. Quote:

it is worth examining the origins of the term “blacklist” from the Douglas Harper Etymology Dictionary, which states that its origin and history is:

"Blacklist" also black-list, black list, “list of persons who have incurred suspicion,” 1610s, from black (adj.), here indicative of disgrace, censure, punishment (attested from 1590s, in black book) + list (n.). Specifically of employers’ list of workers considered troublesome (usually for union activity) is from 1888. As a verb, from 1718. Related: Blacklisted; blacklisting. [32]

It is notable that the first recorded use of the term occurs at the time of mass enslavement and forced deportation of Africans to work in European-held colonies in the Americas.

That being said, do you have any interest in this software? Are there any more pressing issues you'd like me to address instead of this migration? What's the "more impactful" work you are referring to?

Thanks for bringing this up on my priority list, I'll make sure to finish the migration as soon as I have time.

[lupino3]

I have a PhD but luckily it's not needed to understand why those terms may be offensive. You are right, as a cis white male I have no first-hand experience of this kind of oppression and I can only imagine that people may find the term offensive.

This will not solve racism. This will weaken the association of "black" == "bad" and "white" == "good", which is one of the problems we face with racism.

Your arguments made sense, IF we were not living in a racist society such as the one we are in today. No reason to associate the color black, with negative meanings, with people whose color of the skin is black, and transfer those negative meanings. But unfortunately, we live in a racist society and we do apply that transfer of meaning.

That's why I want to enact this very small change. It's definitely not solving a problem and only just a symbolic change.