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Racist project name #680

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BlackLivesMatterPower opened this issue Jun 17, 2020 · 2 comments
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Racist project name #680

BlackLivesMatterPower opened this issue Jun 17, 2020 · 2 comments

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@BlackLivesMatterPower
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I have a general issue with the debugger being called "blackmagic".
Regardless of the author's intent, "black magic" is a term that traditionally refers to supernatural or magic powers being used for evil.
This use of this name therefore propagates the sentiment that there is something inherently evil about the color black, and I think this name should be substituted to avoid racial connotations.

@cryptozoy
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cryptozoy commented Jun 19, 2020

"Black magic", because with it you can program microcontrollers for free. This is a type of "witchcraft." And not because someone is black or white there. Racism has no place among programmers and developers of free software and hardware. Here we have only science and technology. Therefore, if you are not a developer, then you have nothing to do here. For 8 years no one worried about the name of the project with words from children's fairy tales. So why bother now? Maybe you want to ban the words "Black" and "Magic" in all 7000 languages?

@UweBonnes
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Not a technical issue.

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