What a missed opportunity in calling it Django Unchained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANArGmr74u4
And, err.. well, the very namesake of the project to begin with.
They're just saying they don't want to have to think about slavery when choosing software which seems not unreasonable to me.
“Remember those times your ancestors were enslaved?
Which relates to a history of segregation and oppression so recent that your parents were alive when it was overturned? You must remember it since it’s still championed by secessionists and is the cause of ever present police brutality.
Remember that? Well wow, do I have a funny joke for you!”
Long story short, there are other jokes that could be made.
As a competent HN reader you certainly are basing your view on some facts?
Don’t get name wrong, I don’t think the OP meant something malicious and I don’t want to word police in general. It’s just that this joke comes up all the time when Django is mentioned in a crowd. It may have been funny once but now it’s just kind of banal.