Even if you dissagree with that you should still be able to see that even if we did s/retard/moron/ or replaced it with git, idiot etc it would still violate the TOS.
I, for one, will think twice about relying on Github in the future if they try to police what is and isn't appropriate language.
The euphemism treadmill in action.
And I like to think of it as the prisoner-as-powersource kind of treadmill, not the fitness exercise one.
Or retard. Because I've dealt with retarded compilers and libraries before.
Thank you so much for that. The irony is delicious.
Urban dictionary has a definition for git that is a bit closer to how I've always understood it. See #2: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Git
(Judging by this particular hoohah though it may be true though that Github might eventually turn out unwelcoming to those fitting definitions #2 or #3 from the above link.)
Anyway as a git I am offended by the use of the word git and it makes it hard for me to participate in such spaces.
As if somehow euphemism make everything ok, even though you say 'n$@!%r", you are still saying nigger.
So what's the difference between saying nigger and meaning nigger? When you're saying nigger, you give away the option of not meaning nigger, because you cannot use the word free of its connotation: it's there, no matter how you use it. Dogwhistle terms used instead of nigger do not have that universal connotation to them, which is precisely why they are used: they can slip under the radar.
So what to do? Honestly, this is extremely simple: don't say nigger if you don't want people to equate what you're saying with the connotation your words carry. And the same goes for retard: if you don't want people to equate your words with the hate directed at people with mental health issues, don't use words whose connotation is limited to that hate. The denotation of "Sieg Heil" is completely harmless, but you have no problem with understanding its connotation and you don't go around saying it when the denotation fits because you know that only Nazis say "Sieg Heil".
Well, only assholes say retarded or retard. That's the connotation you're associating yourself with and no matter how much you complain about being misunderstood and people being too PC, you just messed up by not paying attention to the connotation of the word.