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Is this racist?

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Giscardo

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I wrote a program that parses VB Script code and generates useful information like callers and callees for functions, and more. I want to call it Navajo, because it reads code. Navajo were used by U.S. in WWII as code readers. Can this be construed as offensive? I want to present it at work but don't want people to think I'm racist.
 
You could still get in trouble, for PC violation of "stereotyping" or something like that: "the Navajo did many things so it's demeaning to say they just talked in code all day."
 
Originally posted by: jtusa
Who cares if it offends? If someone is offended by it then they have a problem, not you.
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And they take that problem to Human Resources, and now you've got a problem. Welcome to modern corporate America.
 
Originally posted by: sm8000
Is Apache (webserver) racist?
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Apache wouldn't be racist because the name of that software isn't a reference to anything that Apaches do or have done. "Code reading," though, is something the Navajo have done in the past, someone who's super sensitive could possibly take offense to it, you never know.
 
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