This reminds me of a discussion in my company after the BLM movement.
It was a talk under article about moving away from blacklist/whitelist. The discussion was done by purely white people and they were suggesting what other names they could change. It looked like people started looking at dictionary for words containing "white" or "black" and started suggesting strange changes.
Going as far as suggesting that "whitespace" is offensive, because it has "white" in name and suggests "opportunity".
I was hard to explain to this person that whitespace comes from book printing.
Basically a savior complex which trivializes the problem, but makes some white folks happy because they did something "important".
It was a talk under article about moving away from blacklist/whitelist. The discussion was done by purely white people and they were suggesting what other names they could change. It looked like people started looking at dictionary for words containing "white" or "black" and started suggesting strange changes.
Going as far as suggesting that "whitespace" is offensive, because it has "white" in name and suggests "opportunity". I was hard to explain to this person that whitespace comes from book printing.
Basically a savior complex which trivializes the problem, but makes some white folks happy because they did something "important".