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Your signature says it all.
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Right?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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you forgot 1138
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Because after all, People Are People. Far too many are busy seeking their own Personal Jesus.
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I'd love to watch these people read through any SPI documentation, their heads just might explode.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: I'd love to watch these people read through any SPI documentation, their heads just might explode.
FTFY 
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 Truth!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Will they demand that NBC cancel 'The Blacklist'?
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So blacklist and whitelist will become brownlist and pinklist. Problem solved. 
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I've actually read that multiple companies are replacing blacklist and whitelist with reject list and approve list or some such 
Brownlist may offend black people because they're actually brown (I can't believe no one noticed!) and pinklist is insulting to the LGBT+ community, duh.
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We really need a sarcasm icon.
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I wasn't even being sarcastic 
Or at least, I was, but it could quickly become the truth.
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No, I meant I was.
You see what I mean?
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We really need a sarcasm icon
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The interesting part is that blacklist comes from the old times (in Europe), when employers had a little black book where they listed unreliable workers that should not get employment.
Had nothing to do with skin colour. Still doesn't.
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I know, but we're heading towards the point where "black" is automatically associated with "black people".
If it then has a negative connotation, like blacklist, it's considered racist.
At least that's how some simpletons think.
I remember reading about some angry feminist who was enraged that the word "female" contains the word "male" and that this was just another example of the patriarchy.
Then some (male) linguist totally roasted her because the two words are unrelated
Perhaps we should teach etymology in schools so people know where some words come from
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Sander Rossel wrote: Perhaps we should teach etymology in schools so people know where some words come from
Yes.
Sander Rossel wrote: I know, but we're heading towards the point where "black" is automatically associated with "black people".
Even worse in Portuguese.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Perhaps we should teach etymology in schools so people know where some words come from
People already know how to Google, they are just really good at glossing over the results that don't fit their agenda.
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You're assuming people are aware etymology exist
But even if they did, you're probably right
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Yep. It was more a general observation rather than specific to your example of etymology.
I think there is a solid correlation between people who are popular on social media and people who don't care about facts. After all, you don't get many followers by trying to change people. Just tell them what they want to hear and they will love you forever.
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Sander Rossel wrote:
Perhaps we should teach etymology in schools so people know where some words come from
That is one of my great hobbies! But in my school days, when a teacher tried to explain the orgins of words and expressions, most of the kids were moaning "We don't care!"
I don't think that has changed very much. I brought up a daughter to be just as fascinated by it as I am myself, but when I asked about her classmates, she shook her head: They don't care about that stuff. Some cultures are far more language aware than others; I wouldn't be surprised if French kids love to dig up the roots of all sorts of words. Maybe upper class Englishmen. Maybe others. But very few from Scandinavia.
A recent example: In Norwegian, being "blakk" is to be broke. Void of money. A "blakk" horse is of course broke, in the monetary sense, but it is also of very light brown color, bordering to off-white. I was suspecting that being broke was a reference to Afro-Americans, who were frequenty broke, but that couldn't explain the "blakk" horse.
It turned out that the complexion, being broke and the color of the horse had indeed the same etymological background: The b-word originally meant "void of". The man being void of money, the horse so light that its hide is (almost) void of color, and the Afro-American so dark that his skin is void of color. I enjoy discovering such connections!
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