It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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    There is stuff that was bad, white/blacklist doesn’t make much sense, when the universal “code” for allow/disallow are green and red. Allow and deny list are much better name.

    Master main, is fine by me, doesnt make much sense to call it master, its only the main branch nothing else.

    Shit that didnt make sense was stuff like removing community episodes from netflix, because or “blackface” without any consideration of why its there or whether it has value, just blanket ban, it was stupid af.

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      Totally discussing useless stuff here, but green and red to me give the feeling of temporary actions (and possibly alternating). Intuitively sounds more like slowing and speeding than it does permanently blocking or allowing something.

      Black and white have the polar opposite meaning. At this point allowlist and blocklist might be a simpler solution to the “problem”.