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Re:Darke Files is a version control and file synchronization... by s1mon on Monday April 24, 2023 @01:29PM (#35690641)
So this got voted down. That's odd to me. I'm trying to warn the developers that this name is potentially offensive and could remind people of racist images. At one point Colgate sold Darkie toothpaste with a really offensive caricature of a black man on it. They later renamed it Darlie, but the history is still there.

https://www.goldthread2.com/identity/origins-colgate-darlie-...

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Re:Darke Files is a version control and file synchronization... by marcellus23 on Monday April 24, 2023 @04:48PM (#35693061)
I'm guessing it got voted down because it's a pretty tenuous link. I read the title as pronounced like "dark", and probably most other people did too, since an "e" is usually silent if placed at the end of the word after a consonant.

I don't think most people would make the connection to the slur, and that's if they even know the slur exists, since it's pretty antiquated.

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