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RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 09/17/18> Black sheep, blacklisted, black balled… why is black almost always the adjective describing something bad?

in #dailydose6 years ago

From a practical standpoint black sheep being labeled as bad makes perfect sense. In that case I wouldn't have considered "black=bad" from its usage on black sheep. Blacklist/whitelist has no defense though, though I doubt we would change it to goodlist/badlist anytime soon. Though those do sound more direct heh... (Texas, I'd say you're off the hook on this one)

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It was practical back then, not so much now.
It isn't our fault people decided to expand on the original concept that is for sure.