Journal Rick Schumann's Journal: NBC show "The Blacklist": what will they do about the name? 2
This just occurred to me. The show is done for the season, but when it comes back, with this movement towards a politically-correct avoidance of terminology like 'whitelist' and 'blacklist', are they going to have to change the name of the show?
Hopefully nothing (Score:1)
Because that would be stupid.
Nobody is mindlessly voiding terms. (Score:2)
When a term is not specifically related to a racialized use, or does not have direct references to systems of enforced inequality, it's not identified as requiring a review and update. A term in common use, even contrasting the optical values of "black" and "white" does not blindly trip over some imagined line of "political correctness".
These are issues that are being collectively worked out, in the context of a culture that is trying to rapidly reassess its biases towards injustice, which is in many regard