Prejudice by Tim Minchin
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it in arguments about the force of words, including the long debates over the GIMP name and username filtering.
What it is
Tim Minchin performs Prejudice, a comedic song about the power of words and the language used to abuse and demean.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2015 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Recommends DonHopkins · 2022-08 · on “Gimp development release 2.99.12 includes initial CMYK support”
Speaking of the G-Word, Tim Minchin wrote a brilliant and insightful song about the power of words and the language of prejudice. [this video]
Recommends DonHopkins · 2023-10 · on “Automating Dead Code Cleanup”
On that note, I hope you enjoy Tim Minchin's song "Prejudice", about the power of language: [this video] Getting offended at illustrations representing black and white people working together is the kind of dead code we need to eliminate.
Cites DonHopkins · 2015-10 · on “366559 – Brotli Accept-Encoding/Content-Encoding”
That's exactly the point of Tim Minchin's song about the power of the language of prejudice, about a word with a terrible history of being used to abuse, oppress and subdue: just six seemingly harmless letter arranged in a way to form a word with more power than the pieces of metal that are forged to make swords: a couple of G's, an R and an E, a I and an N... [1] [1] [this video]
Cites dredmorbius · 2021-10 · on “The naughty username checking system used by Twitch”
Prejudice. Just six seemingly harmless letters arranged in a way to form a word with more power than the pieces of metal which is forged to make swords. Just a couple of G's, an R and an E, an I and an N.... [this video]
Cites wodenokoto · 2021-10 · on “The naughty username checking system used by Twitch”
I'm not a native speaker, so almost every time I hear that phrase it ends after "sticks and stones", because on TV and movies, that's usually enough for the intended audience. After Googling, I think I might have picked up this version from Tim Minchins song "prejudice" [1] although Google also come up with this clip where a senator also use the "break my heart" version, clearly when it was meant for him to say "never harm" [2] 1: [this video] 2: [LINK]
Cites DonHopkins · 2023-11 · on “Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now?”
Sorry, but the number of people who have seen Pulp Fiction, plus the number of people who know derogatory terms for disabled people, is much greater than the number of people who know technical biological terms of art. If the GIMP developers really want to score an edgy rhetorical point about how society should get over its uptight wokeness and let therm use any word they want whenever they want, and that's the hill they choose to die on, then how about they go all in, and try convincing society to re-signify the n-word by using it IN ALL UPPER CASE as the name of a hard-to-use paint program with an overly complex incomprehensible user interface, then come back to me after a few years and le
Cites DonHopkins · 2023-11 · on “GIMP 3.0 finally has a release schedule”
>Yes the common argument is about the UI and which one where that Blender and Krita are both the new kids on the block. Maybe it's a common argument where you come from, but it's a factually false argument. [LINK] >GIMP: Initial release: 2 June 1998; 25 years ago [LINK] >Blender Initial release: January 2, 1994; 29 years ago [LINK] >New Kids On The Block: Years active: 1984–1994, 2008–present So Blender is actually four years older than GIMP, and a decade younger than New Kids On The Block. And over all those years, Blender has continuously improved and evolved a huge amount, especially recently. And the developers listen to and respond to the needs of their users. For in all those years, GI
Cites DonHopkins · 2026-03 · on “Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer”
People who hate GIMP's name are not "FOSS haters". They just hate it when certain people in the FOSS community make the entire FOSS community look bad. Here is a typical attempt to justify the name "GIMP", demanding that society change instead of admitting the name has obviously terrible meanings: [LINK] _c3ag>first thing that pops is a phrase of some biologist regards why evolution made plants green and not blue (physically, blue can absorb way more energy from the sun)... SPOILER: because makes the plantae organisms way more stable rather than performant (which opens up less windows for failings regards evolution). i use Gimp for digital collages, dead simple pixel-art and even composing a