[brobinson]

I think this might be a reference to the "WebM for Retards" repo which was banned. After that event, someone ran a search and found myriad other repos containing "problematic" language which were ignored.

[SamReidHughes]

Not just that repo -- see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12232250

[brobinson]

I'm honestly so jaded by the injection of language policing into everything that all I can do is sigh nowadays.