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Re:Thunderbird 91.0 by mdp2021 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @05:59AM (#28154254)
They changed their name for non futile reasons.

And contextually, 'slave' comes from 'Slav', not the opposite: you meet a Pispathian, you decide that a "pisp" (which incidentally in local language with a good chance means "valiant" or similar) is a reifiable one of a reifiable people, and after the insult they should also change their name?!

Re:Thunderbird 91.0 by post-it on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:13PM (#28158088)
Of course not.

> some Slavic countries might request their naming and history be changed to something delinked from slavery... Shall we rename Slovenia and Slovakia, too?

If they want to rename themselves, we should use their new names.

Re:Thunderbird 91.0 by mdp2021 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:51PM (#28158617)
I think the original poster meant that Slovenia and Slovakia would never think of renaming themselves, especially not for the absurd reason that the Romans attached an unflattering association with their name.

Edit: read my original sentence as "and after the insult they should also be thought considering changing their name?!".

Re:Thunderbird 91.0 by dotancohen on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:25PM (#28158267)
Are any people affected by slavery asking for Thunderbird to change the name of components with two decades of documentation?