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.
