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Subject:    Re: OT: "...value judgement"
From:       Charles Sprickman <spork () bway ! net>
Date:       2020-07-21 19:28:27
Message-ID: E084FF9A-B28C-4E7F-BD31-856C0E5CE9E5 () bway ! net
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> On Jul 21, 2020, at 3:16 PM, Robert Schetterer <rs@sys4.de> wrote:
> 
> Am 21.07.20 um 21:07 schrieb Bill Cole:
> > On 21 Jul 2020, at 14:06, Grant Taylor wrote:
> > > On 7/21/20 11:56 AM, Bill Cole wrote:
> > > > All answers: "NO!" In those cases, "black" and "white" all reference actual \
> > > > colors of physical things, not a metaphorical value judgment.
> > > 
> > > Hum.  Your "value judgement" statement is interesting.
> > > 
> > > The original meaning of blacklist that I found seems to be exactly that, a \
> > > value judgement on if it was okay / safe to do business with people / \
> > > businesses or not.  Specifically if someone (independent of race) was unsafe to \
> > > do business with, they were added to the blacklist.
> > Precisely.
> > That usage is problematic because in many (most? all?) Anglophone societies, \
> > "Black" is an ethno-racial label. In some cases (UK, US, probably more) it is \
> > accepted and internalized as an identity by those thus labeled. This creates a \
> > naming collision with the usage of "black" and "white" as metaphorical labels for \
> > value judgments. The degree of annoyance caused by that collision of connotations \
> > varies widely.
> 
> Hi @ll, can we focus on tec problems again ?

The thread is marked "OT" unlike the outbursts from the crew of warriors against \
"cultural marxism" that are crapping on every thread…

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