Linux will have a more inclusive language

Linus Torvalds also wants for the Linux world a more "politically correct" language, spurious of words and idioms that can contain within itself traces of racism hidden among the customs of the language. Linux is certainly not the first community to tackle this aspect, which has also opened up controversies that nevertheless help to somehow define the boundary between the merit and hypocrisy of these proposals.

Linux : stop slaves and black list

For the Linux world the goal is to eliminate master / slaves, as well as remove terms such as "black list" and "white list". White and black should no longer be synonyms or semantic references for good and evil, in short, and alternatives must be sought.

In particular, for the master / slave dichotomy, these proposals emerged:

primary / secondary main / replica or subordinate initiator / target requester / responder controller / device host / worker or proxy leader / follower director / performer To replace "black list" and "white list", instead:

denylist / allowlist blocklist / passlist The choice is left to the community, the principle is that expressed by Linus Torvalds and inherited from the Black Lives Matter movement: it is necessary to clean up the cultural bias that keep racism on its feet because it is only with this purge that one can hope to eradicate sooner or later definitively one of the most enduring evils in the path of man on this Earth. Even the world of information technology was the bearer, so even the world of information technology wanted to be the interpreter of the protest: no slaves and no blacks, only neutral entities to protect everyone's identity and equality as a standard element.

If the language to be more inclusive, it will be one day, perhaps, even people. Everyone to do his part.

Source: Linux