Loaded terms in free software

This happens routinely to words with strong emotional connotation and always has (once upon a time it was religious words, then sexual words, now it's words relating to vicious oppression -- and horrible diseases, e.g. "cancer"). Guess what, we don't run out of words. Worrying about it is ridiculous. Language changes: live with it. This is such a change. The process is indeed incessant, and this instance is no worse than any other in the past.

(Do you get unhappy about the fact that you can't look at coneys hopping through the fields? Yes, a word as commonplace as "rabbit" was relatively rare until the late 19th century. And that spin of the euphemism treadmill wasn't even because "coney" was itself considered offensive, at least not in the UK: it's because it was *pronounced* the same way as a piece of anatomy that had itself caused many spins of the treadmill before then.)

The north-eastern US is going through a change in pronunciation almost as extreme as the Great Vowel Shift. Why not go and get all offended about that? It's much more linguistically significant than yet another change triggered by emotionally intense words in places people don't really *want* that emotional intensity.