In an attempt to fight discrimination, Google’s Chromium project is striving to write gender and racially neutral code. According to Google’s code style guide, the company will replace words such as “blacklist” and “whitelist” with “blocklist” and “allowlist”.
It is interesting to see the software giant take such minute but significant steps that aim to make a positive impact towards an inclusive world. In fact, the usage of terms such as “master and slave” and “whitelist and blacklist” have long been normalized in society despite their negative connotation. We hope more companies follow the lead to eliminate any sort of gender and racial discrimination in their capacity to help make the world a better place.
