Loaded terms in free software

I'm still wondering if blacklist and whitelist really are making people suffering when they read code. Both terms are unrelated to slavery.

I can see why master and slave can hurt some people though. Even though to a developer the intent is not to be racist, but to accurately describe how the code works.

Regardless, allowlist and denylist feels more accurate, and the same goes with leader and followers (although it might depends on the context). This is a good reason IMO to use them in new code.