Comment on klown show 6 x-treme

• sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Unfortunately GNU Image Manipulation Program, when shortened to its 4-letter acronym and common name, is also a slur against people with disabilities.

  The developers didn’t name it after the slur on purpose, but they also refuse to change it for some reason :/

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  • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Should have at least been GNUIMP. Maybe people would have used it.

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    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why not just GIP Gnu Image Program? Manipulation is honestly kind of a given.

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I always thought it was named after the character from Sex

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    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is that a movie called Sex? Pretty sure the developers didn’t know about that either

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      • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes, a whole franchise actually. Very popular online. Many of the films star the Gimp

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  • Malfeasant@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because it’s not commonly used that way. If we avoided anything that had at some time been used as a slur, we’d only have about 3 names to pick from. (Of course I exaggerate, but it’s better than saying “it would retard growth”, isn’t it?)

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    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Maybe people don’t say it around you. I’ve heard it, especially as a verb.

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• Raptorox@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Gimp is a slur apparently

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  • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s something you might have called someone with a physical disability on the school yard in the 90s but I have not heard anyone use it in that way in a long long time

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    • Raptorox@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve never seen it used as well, hence the “apparently”.

      Even wiktionary lists this as Etymology 2 with little explanations

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