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Allowlist, not whitelist. Blocklist, not blacklist. Goodbye, wtf. Microsoft scans Chromium code, lops off offensive words

nijam Silver badge

> On the one hand, this sort of self-conscious language shifting drives a wedge between us and every previous generation, which is bad.

Worse than that, actually. In much less than a generation, the newly-approved euphemism inevitably become the new, exactly-as-bad, insult. Most of us, surely, have witnessed that often enough already.

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