I think “allowlist” is oppressive and humiliating so can you please stop using it altogether?
It’s all about demonstrating that you have the social power to control other people’s words, even when (perhaps especially when) your justification for doing so is completely and obviously nonsensical to everyone involved.
I think it qualifies as an oppressive form of social violence.
If you at all cared about the lived experienced of the folks you’re oppressing, you’d stop using it.
There is nothing humiliating in it, so I'm going to politely ignore your suggestion. In practice, though, the "gentle suggestion" is a thinly veiled threat to report heresy to inquisition.
I identify as non-binary. Your erasure of my identity is just as problematic as your use of social violence to compel speech and oppress marginalized and under-represented groups.
Your responses and refusal to acknowledge the effects of these words only demonstrates you being insensitive about the pain of many of your brothers and sisters who find the echo of social injustices in the seemingly insignificant word like “allowlist”(white) and “denylist”(black). You may even understand why they feel one way or other about it , it is just that you choose to not acknowledge it.
A world where a corporate entity (or any entity for that matter) tries to interfere with the way we communicate is not "better". As someone wrote in this thread already, tools we use are an extension of ourselves, and we should be able to form whatever thoughts and opinions we want, without any sort of "influence", no matter how minor, even if it's optional. People go for defaults and this seems like a giant slippery slope.
They are auto suggestions. If you don’t want the feature disable it. But don’t ask society or the majority to agree with you. Most people agree with what google is doing and find it helpful otherwise they would simply turn it off.
The majority of society will not even be aware of such a change, because the majority goes with the default settings provided to them. Also source on people agreeing with BigCo being helpful, please.
