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@kkavee @tankgrrl @crowbriarhexe @mjibrower @petrillic yup, most people have stopped using ableist slurs, but [edit: a sizeable fraction of] the maintainers of this project take pride in it for some reason

@jackeric @kkavee @tankgrrl @crowbriarhexe @mjibrower @petrillic Do they?
I would think it raised a chuckle once 26 years ago and now it's kept for historic reasons. I thought I find something on the Wikipedia-article about this controversy but there is nothing. Do you have a source please?

@ewerybody
How dare you make sense?!
@jackeric @kkavee @tankgrrl @crowbriarhexe @mjibrower @petrillic

@0xDEADBEEF @ewerybody @kkavee @tankgrrl @crowbriarhexe @mjibrower @petrillic are you folks incapable of reading the link two or three posts upthread
https://hachyderm.io/@tankgrrl/114180650231770761

@jackeric @0xDEADBEEF @ewerybody @kkavee @tankgrrl @crowbriarhexe @mjibrower @petrillic
yall are overthinking this lol. its just a word, and it sounds cool too (phonetically)

@pedka oh look, another zero-follower mastodon.social user has chimed in to stan for ableism

@jackeric no i haven't

also grats on your 700 followers. im sure it makes you a much better person than me

@pedka yup, you are, you've logged in to tell us all how a slur is not a slur, because you don't give a fuck about disabled people

@jackeric no i just told you i havent. i wish such words would not exist. disambiguating them like that is a step towards it. its about not giving a fuck about the word, not people. at the end of the day, all words are made up. make up your own, like gimp

@pedka repeating a slur does not disempower it. it does the opposite

and for someone who's apparently so keen to say "all words are made up", you're really bothered by the idea that the Gnu image editor should be named something else

@jackeric because gimp sounds cool phonetically. if thats what you associate gimp with then im sorry. to me gimp is just a 4 letter word associated with an open source graphics program. it crossed your mind, not mine.

call me an ableist, i dont care because i know who i am (not an ableist)

@pedka you are ableist though. you don't get to decide that a word doesn't have the meaning it has

now go, log off this site, and find something more fulfilling to do with your brief life than defend a software project that blatantly does not give a fuck what anyone thinks about it

@jackeric i love when people try to gaslight me into thinking that im someone im not

@pedka you're uncomfortable because you're maybe beginning to understand that your words and actions have consequences

@jackeric you did not just try to gaslight me again. stop it, you wont make me feel bad about it. its just an acronym, and a cool sounding one at that. im not an ableist. if anything, its you who is being judgemental right now

@pedka yeah, it's quite clear that you're proud of being ableist while denying that what you're doing is ableist

@pedka funny how words suddenly have meaning when they're directed at you, isn't it

@pedka "it has nothing to do with [the slur often used against] disabled people except it sounds the same [and is spelled the same, just capitalised]"

seriously. you joined this conversation. you tried to defend the shitty use of a slur for whatever reason. you've completely failed to do so - just vomited nonsense about words being made up and if you live in your imagination instead of the real world then you can change the meanings of words and remove negative associations. go back to your imaginary world whenever you like.

I'm sure you'll remember your Mastodon password and be back again next time a FOSS project gets criticised

@jackeric im really sorry that you feel this way

@pedka yup, I'm sure you're disappointed I'm not eagerly agreeing with you

@golemwire The harmless meaning of the project's name is too fringe to matter. I'm saying you're being oversensitive to the criticism of the project's name.

It's possible that from where you come from, the project's name is not used as an insult. From where I'm from, it is used as a slur to attack disabled people. Sorry if it happens to offend you, really, but FOSS politics is a little unhinged so what do I expect...

@auser Do you sealion for other categories of bigotry, or just ableism?

@jackeric Sorry, i don't understand what you are saying. I don't speak newspeak.

@auser OK, go away until you understand, then

@jackeric