chapotraphouse @hexbear.net nothx [he/him] @hexbear.net 1 wk. ago

This was the first struggle session I remember.

It was absolutely bonkers watching the raddle king make false equivalencies between the terms “blacklist” and “brown-nose”.

Love seeing a tagline that spawned from a thread I was part of lol.

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is blacklist racist?
- 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.
  
  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
  
  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
  
  “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).
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148600/
  
  it has its origin in anti-labor actions taken during the first stages of chattel slavery. terms like black sheep and black market are similarly racially charged. black eye is just abt the color of the injury tho. and the “brown” in brown nose is abt getting shit on ur nose from ass kissing im p sure.
  
  black sheep
  
  Isn't this also about the literal color of wool? Black wool is caused be recessive genes and shepherds didn't really like them because it can't be dyed and isn't very marketable. At least that's been my understanding of the term.
Wait Zig caused the first struggle session? Lol
- No, but he did impersonate several of us on Raddle pretty early on.
- Nooo, sorry, my wording may have been confusing. It’s the first I can remember. Right around when I made my hexbear account.

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