Ahh yes, this is exactly what the BLM protestors asked for.
How are scientists going to stop police brutality?
Nation-wide protests embolden people who want insurrections of various kinds. Some worthy, some questionable, some wrong.
There's no rhyme or reason to it all, because there is no intellectual foundation to what constitutes 'fair' or 'not racist'.
Ironically, were it up to the general public - little would change. Almost nobody is concerned or bothered by most language or epitaphs. Even among the groups who might take offence, there's not huge concern over most of these things.
It's mostly a war among the elites in Academia, the Press, Government etc..
So let's find out, and take poll for example.
Will you accept the results?
Will the 'movement' accept it once and for all and shut up, admit they were wrong, if they were to find out that nobody cares about the term 'whitelist or blacklist'?
Despite what you think would be my objection - I would be quite happy to allow African Americans, and not just a few of them, but all of them, decide if they find the term 'blacklist or whitelist' offensive.
Because they won't.
Confederate statues? Understandably.
But innocuous terms - no.
Our intellectualisation of these issues is completely out of touch with reality.