Saying that the two cases are not equivalent is a criticism of the level-of-effort comparison, not a criticism of a particular people-group's subjective suffering.
An interesting thinking angle to this often “why was it fine before ?”
Was it because nobody knew about that name/word in the first place ?
Was there always incoming requests for change but those were just ignored as baseless, and as the social context changed discarding them is not as easy anymore ?
Was it because the majority of users weren’t offended, but the user base changed enough that offended people’s voices go louder ?
I find a lot of seemingly frivolous or petty word changes have a wider context that are not as simple as it looks on the surface. [0] https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/issues/1053
Would you be open to that request? I mean, whatever, right? Who cares? Just do it. It might help me and perhaps others because to us Java is very painful. Oh, also, if you need an additional reason, Java is sexist because its file header starts with 0xCAFEBABE, another reason to switch to C.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java#Colonial_periods