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Usage of the word "blacklist" for delisting tokens

Open pavelhadzhiev opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Change the constant name TOKEN_BLACKLIST to TOKEN_DISALLOWLIST or an equivalent. Blacklist is considered an offensive word and should be avoided in software development.

https://github.com/ianlapham/uniswap-info/blob/2df919d0729d4f9119a9c469dba8952031536d3d/src/constants/index.js#L20

pavelhadzhiev avatar Mar 30 '21 17:03 pavelhadzhiev

The history of the term has nothing to do with skin color or offending others. It would be equivalent to removing the words "black" and "white" from the English dictionary.

parkbanks avatar Mar 30 '21 19:03 parkbanks

I'm white and I agree with this

https://insights.dice.com/2020/07/17/whitelist-blacklist-the-new-debate-over-security-terminology/

samhunta avatar May 23 '21 20:05 samhunta