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Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg by lmm on Thursday November 27, 2025 @12:52AM (#46066135)
Apparently there's some specific US cultural history of people calling black people "monkeys" as a racist insult, and so some people from there immediately leap to assume that any use of "monkey" as an insult is that.
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Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg by ekropotin on Thursday November 27, 2025 @02:05AM (#46066546)
What racism has to do with it?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=code%20monke...

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Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg by brabel on Thursday November 27, 2025 @02:53AM (#46066843)
You think that’s an American thing only?? Oh boy, I have bad news.
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Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg by wilg on Thursday November 27, 2025 @01:15AM (#46066264)
Ridiculous to claim this is a "US-specific thing" https://www.academia.edu/22669911/Comparing_black_people_to_...
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Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg by DANmode on Thursday November 27, 2025 @01:53AM (#46066485)
Oh wow.

Following now.

Sheesh.

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