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[–] atomdmac@lemmy.world -4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The Left: its called an Allow List now, you racists! The Right: its called the Gulf of America, you commies!

Jesus, we're pathetic.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

One is propaganda made up by right wing nerds and one is the president of fucking america if you didnt catch how silly you were being right now

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nobody calls it that though. No one who is actually left-wing thought that calling them blacklist / white list was offensive.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Is this another of those things where someone wrote some mild Substack post about “maybe the phrase black list does imply black = bad” that maybe five people read before conservatives decided that it represents the ideological position of all leftists?