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zozbot234
5y ago
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So no, but really yes. It's just as racist as "black list" and "white list".
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philwelch
5y ago
That’s more the general case of the word “black” being used both to denote bad/negative/disallowed and to denote people of African ancestry. But there isn’t a
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racial meaning to either “blackballed” or “blacklist”.
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