[BetaMechazawa]

This obsession with making every single website a hugbox these days is moronic. The word retard/retarded is seldom associated with actual retardation instead it's just a synonym for moron.

Even if you dissagree with that you should still be able to see that even if we did s/retard/moron/ or replaced it with git, idiot etc it would still violate the TOS.

[lazzlazzlazz]

Even the words "moron", "idiot", etc. all have an etymological root in referring to the mentally handicapped.

I, for one, will think twice about relying on Github in the future if they try to police what is and isn't appropriate language.

[the8472]

> Even the words "moron", "idiot", etc. all have an etymological root in referring to the mentally handicapped.

The euphemism treadmill in action.

And I like to think of it as the prisoner-as-powersource kind of treadmill, not the fitness exercise one.

[kefka]

Just use "double plus unsmart".

Or retard. Because I've dealt with retarded compilers and libraries before.

[dwc]

> or replaced it with git

Thank you so much for that. The irony is delicious.

[to3m]

'Git' and 'retard' aren't really substitutes...

[fluidcruft]

s/retard/github/g ?

[TazeTSchnitzel]

It's not about meaning, it's about usage and impact. Slurs like "r@t$rd" are used against people with mental health issues and make it hard for them to participate in such spaces.

[Cthulhu_]

r-at-t-dollar-rd? how do you even pronounce that?

Anyway as a git I am offended by the use of the word git and it makes it hard for me to participate in such spaces.