Email I got from our software vendor: As part of ***** continuing commitments to support equity and inclusion in healthcare and to make our software and documentation more inclusive of everyone who interacts with it, we're finding and replacing language with negative racial connotations in the system. For example, we're replacing "whitelist" and "blacklist" with "allowlist" and "blocklist."
Master and slave also being scrubbed as terms in networking and drive configuration. IT has been notoriously insular and tone deaf to diversity. Wouldn't hurt to change words while the culture itself changes. I like how some geeks b**** and moan about the name changes or "backbreaking to diversity" but still spend nights reading an entirely new version update for a language or framework. Uggh cultural politeness with simple words way harder than adjusting to deprecated code or inconsistent semantic name changes. When will the madness stop
