Inclusive Naming Initiative
Prepare to get triggered!
A new group called the “Inclusive Naming Initiative” has revealed its existence and mission “to help companies and projects remove all harmful and unclear language of any kind and replace it with an agreed-upon set of neutral terms.”
Akamai, Cisco, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, IBM, the Linux Foundation, Red Hat, and VMware are all participants.
The group has already offered a Word replacement list that suggests alternatives to the terms whitelist, blacklist, slave, and master. There’s also a framework for evaluating harmful language that offers guidance on how to make changes.
They tekin our werrds!