So I'm at work today doing my 'nerd' thing taking care of computer related issues. It just so happens we have web filtering software at work since it seems to be normal human behavior to think. "Hey I'm at work, guess I'll download some porn!"
So anyway, the filter sometimes blocks the good sites also and we have to manually give access to those sites.
As I'm doing this today I noticed that for people to have access I have to put them in the "whitelist." Where do the bad ones go? You guessed it the "blacklist." I won't even get started on the computer terminology where the main drive is called the "master" and the backup drive is called the "slave." At least some manufacturers have started calling them 'primary' and 'secondary'.
As I started to think about this black and white thing it has bugged me for a while because children are basically brought up thinking white is good and black is evil. Examples you say:?
White Witch= Good Black Witch=Bad
White Magic=Good Black Magic=Bad
Cowboys in White Hats=Good Cowboys in Black Hats=Bad (O.K. that one is kind of old school)
and the topper:
Angel Food cake is white and Devils Food cake is black. What's up with that?
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