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I do not find it offensive. But, I do know people who found it offensive, and wanted it changed. If that is the case, I can see no particular reason not to change the name.

Who exactly is being excluded? No-one (it seems to me) watch attached to .bro, it only existed for a couple of days.



Who wanted it is beside the point. It was crushed under political correctness (ie the assumption of unspeakable harm) rather than any actual harm in only a few days.

If anyone did like it I doubt they'd have felt free to speak up.

> I do know people who found it offensive

I find Bros offensive - in my house. But the word? No. "Nazi" is just a word, Nazis are offensive.

> I can see no particular reason not to change the name.

Ditto there's no reason to. Someone went out of their way to take offense which was bounced around an echo chamber and now everyone is offended by something they didn't know existed before today.

That's not something we should reward.




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