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Mongo DB takes the cake, which is a slur for someone with down syndrome in my part of the world.
by config_yml 4y ago
Mongo DB takes the cake, which is a slur for someone with down syndrome in my part of the world.
- jsiepkes 4y agoWell don't leave us hanging, in what language?
- krautsourced 4y agoGerman
- k_sze 4y agoIn Quebecois French as well, "mongol" can be a pejorative for someone with DS. (That's because "Mongolian idiocy" is the obsolete medical term for DS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_idiocy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_idiocy)
- im_dario 4y agoSpanish, for instance.
- carapace 4y agoEnglish. It was named after "Mongo, an immensely strong, dim-witted, yet philosophical henchman" in the movie "Blazing Saddles" (which is hilarious but would probably get Mel Brooks burned at the stake if he tried to make it today.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazing_Saddles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazing_Saddles Anyway, "mongo" is short for "mongoloid" which was a derogatory word for folks with what we now call Down Syndrome, and also racist in re: Mongols. So yeah, not a great choice of name.
- E4YomzYIN5YEBKe 4y agoI've heard of "mong" as short for "mongoloid" but I've never heard of "monogo" being used that way. Searching through Google books most of the results for mongo refer to the Mongo people of the Congo. The second most common source is the fictional planet Mongo from the Flash Gordon comics.
- carapace 4y agoMaybe Google is being Politically Correct? https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mongo https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mongo