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What a ridiculous argument to be having in times like this. It's clearly named for the movie Robocop, and even if it wasn't: not all countries suffer from an abusive militarised police force like the USA does.

I can understand the appeal to move away from master/slave and blacklist/whitelist naming conventions, but you have to draw the line somewhere and I think objecting to the name of a project just because it contains the word "cop" is way past that line. We use the term "cop" in a different context in the UK (https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...), so why should someone in Bulgaria care about the American usage of the word? Should I be abusing someone to have "fanny packs" renamed because the term could be deemed sexist in the UK?



Regarding whitelist/blacklist I haven't seen evidence that

1. It originates from a racist usage. 2. It is primarily used with reference to racist ideas.

I still think that there may be reason to change it: e.g. allowlist/blocklist may be more easily understood, but whitelist/blacklist may be more easy to recall (since it is more standard terminology).

Interestingly, along the same lines as whitelist/blacklist, certain Chinese and Japanese have historically called Caucasians red-haired peoples, with connotations of otherness. One wonders if in another century someone would argue to change the colors of the red-black tree.




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