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GIMP? If that's what you're referring to, then yup #1 worst-named FOSS ever.

• voidfunc 5y ago
  I thought it was a jab at Cockroach DB
  • michaelpb 5y ago
    Could be that! Another terrible name hahah. Although in their defense I get the "cockroach" analogy, while "gimp" is just an offensive insult and/or a very NSFW BDSM term, and has no other meaning, which makes conversations even more awkward.
• detaro 5y ago
  "Mongo" is a pretty bad slur for people with Down syndrome.
  • michaelpb 5y ago
    Oh wow, I had no idea! I've never heard of this. Thanks for letting me know. I only knew it as the name of "Planet Mongo", the main planet in the Flash Gordon universe, an old science fiction comic that has been rebooted many times (which also had loads of extremely racist anti-Chinese elements)
    • mekkkkkk 5y ago
      In the Scandinavian countries "mongo" is used as both a slur and a general insult. However, since it manages the feat of being both ableist and racist at the same time, its popularity has waned quite a bit over the years.
  • rubyist5eva 5y ago
    I've never heard that, though I've heard the racist "loid" version. Though I do love the dictionary definition of "mongo": "Items found in the trash that can be salvaged." Sums up my views of mongodb pretty well, actually.
    • slantyyz 5y ago
      And the version of the slur you're talking about is a pretty old one that I have not heard used in decades (of course that may be regional, generational, etc.) But like you, I have never heard "mongo" used in the same pejorative context.
      • jeltz 5y ago
        It might be rare in English but it is very common in other languages.
      • skinkestek 5y ago
        It is a very common slur among kids in Norway and originally means someone who has the "mongoloid" syndrome. These days it just means "you idiot" after "pro choice" succeeded where Hitler "failed" and got rid of most people with downs syndrome.
        • account-5 5y ago
          Hilter was targeting people with downs syndrome? I thought it was Jews and Russians.
          • skinkestek 5y ago
            Correct, and not only them but also certain others who weren't perfectly healthy. In Germany parents who were NSDAP party members brought their kids in voluntarily. For more details look up Tiergartenstraße 4 or Aktion T4, but be aware that the details are ugly.
            • skinkestek 5y ago
              Too late to edit and also only tangentially related but I think it is worth mentioning that Nazis also tried to get rid of Jehovas Witnesses, Gypsies and probably a number of others as well.
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