Anyone who thinks tarbaby when they see tarball is a racist and I refuse to let that become my problem.
While the term refers to an archive that has been created with the tar command, it can be negatively associated with the pejorative term tarbaby."
https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/stanfordlanguag...
I'm genuinely fascinated by how this came to be written. Were there brainstorming sessions where people threw out random word associations to show willing, combined with a fear from the rest of the group of accusations of racism for calling it out as arrant nonsense?