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Remove "dumb" from project #500

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fasiha opened this issue Mar 7, 2023 · 4 comments · May be fixed by #501
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Remove "dumb" from project #500

fasiha opened this issue Mar 7, 2023 · 4 comments · May be fixed by #501

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@fasiha
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fasiha commented Mar 7, 2023

Love the project. Hate the name. Words like “dumb” and “lame” are ableist because they use disabled people’ bodies as a proxy for derision—specifically deaf people’s speech or someone’s inability to walk. I am 100% sure nobody intended to hurt disabled folks via this title, but I gently ask you to consider what it means to a deaf person when you use “dumb” to mean “shitty” or “bad”. Kavana Ramaswamy has written a wonderful, approachable essay discussing this in more detail https://medium.com/@kavanaram/avoid-ableist-language-394f48fcc473

I gently request the project’s name be changed, to anything you like that’s less ableist: badpasswordrules.com, crappasswordrules.com, etc.

Again I want to be 10000% clear I am not implying anyone on this project caused harm by using this name, nor that they are causing harm in the future by not changing the name. The last thing I would want to do is for someone to feel I’m disparaging or attacking their hard work.

I know how hard it will be to do this!, between buying a new domain, changing Vercel deploy scripts, renaming the repo, etc. All of that does not need to be done now! Partial progress towards avoiding ableism is wonderful progress.

@jepyang
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jepyang commented Mar 7, 2023

+1 to this

@duffn
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duffn commented Mar 7, 2023

Thanks for raising the issue. I've purchased badpasswordrules.net.

I'll of course need to take care of domain and bot related items when time permits, but do welcome a PR(s) to update the code base to reflect the new name.

@fasiha
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fasiha commented Mar 7, 2023

@duffn thanks so much for your support 💙. Please let me know if you'd like help defraying the cost of buying that domain name, I can imagine it was expensive. I'll prepare a PR with the new name, bear with me as I doubtless will miss some occurrences 🙇.

@duffn
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duffn commented Mar 7, 2023

There's no need for any sort of payment, but a PR would be appreciated, thanks.

@duffn duffn changed the title “Dumb” is ableist Remove "dumb" from project Mar 7, 2023
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