Consider Renaming Gimp to a Less Offensive Name

Re:Consider Renaming Gimp to a Less Offensive Name by jacobjuul on Friday July 05, 2019 @05:24AM (#20361066)

I don't agree nor disagree since I've never heard that word used for anything else than the software. But by this logic, we should also rename git

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Re:Consider Renaming Gimp to a Less Offensive Name by mkr-hn on Friday July 05, 2019 @08:24AM (#20361970)

Git is not without issues, but it's not as bad as this word.

There are two common ways to see gimp beyond what its defenders put forward:

1: A kink thing.

2: What the kink is based on: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gimp -> https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cripple

Neither one is great for adoption.

>> "I've never heard that word used for anything else than the software."

There are a lot of words I didn't know were common slurs, or at least inaccurate or otherwise not okay until someone told me. For example: Eskimo (colonist nonsense), Gypsy (name given to Romani people based on mistaken belief they came from Egypt), Indian (some native people use it, but not all).

Learning is great.

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