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Re: Diversity and offensive terminology in RFCs

Mark Rousell <mark.rousell@signal100.com> Fri, 21 September 2018 03:08 UTC

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On 21/09/2018 04:05, Mark Rousell wrote:
> On 21/09/2018 03:31, Alia Atlas wrote:
>> While I do agree with John Levine that there are many additional
>> human rights and issues to consider,
>> I don't see how one can disregard the origins of "blacklist".
>
> What are the origins? I've used the term for decades in many contexts
> but never, ever needed to know or care what its origins are. I still
> need to know or care. It's completely and wholly irrelevant to current
> usage.

s/I still need to know or care/I still don't need to know or care/


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Mark Rousell

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