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The name is really unfortunate. It's way too close to an ethnic slur which is spelled a bunch of different ways, but darkie is almost the same as Darke. https:
by s1mon 3y ago
The name is really unfortunate. It's way too close to an ethnic slur which is spelled a bunch of different ways, but darkie is almost the same as Darke.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/darky https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/darky
- s1mon 3y agoSo this got voted down. That's odd to me. I'm trying to warn the developers that this name is potentially offensive and could remind people of racist images. At one point Colgate sold Darkie toothpaste with a really offensive caricature of a black man on it. They later renamed it Darlie, but the history is still there. https://www.goldthread2.com/identity/origins-colgate-darlie-black-person-toothpaste-explained/article/3089860 https://www.goldthread2.com/identity/origins-colgate-darlie-...
- marcellus23 3y agoI'm guessing it got voted down because it's a pretty tenuous link. I read the title as pronounced like "dark", and probably most other people did too, since an "e" is usually silent if placed at the end of the word after a consonant. I don't think most people would make the connection to the slur, and that's if they even know the slur exists, since it's pretty antiquated.