I understand that it seems easy to accommodate this one simple request, because that's just the one that article discusses. However the folks who really push this nonsense won't stop at program code, and they won't stop at racial sensitivity. Be prepared to scrub all of your user documentation, design documents, and marketing material as well. Be prepared to accommodate the charismatic christians who take offense to references to daemons and 666 file access permissions (I personally know such people). Be prepared to accommodate such sensitive (and politically powerful) individuals as Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who will publicly label you a racist if you utter the phrase "black hole", in either a scientific context or to describe an inefficient process [1]. Be prepared to police office communication to minimize gendered language; phrases such as "man-hours" and "you guys" are often used as examples of sexist language. On and on.
I understand that it seems easy to accommodate this one simple request, because that's just the one that article discusses. However the folks who really push this nonsense won't stop at program code, and they won't stop at racial sensitivity. Be prepared to scrub all of your user documentation, design documents, and marketing material as well. Be prepared to accommodate the charismatic christians who take offense to references to daemons and 666 file access permissions (I personally know such people). Be prepared to accommodate such sensitive (and politically powerful) individuals as Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who will publicly label you a racist if you utter the phrase "black hole", in either a scientific context or to describe an inefficient process [1]. Be prepared to police office communication to minimize gendered language; phrases such as "man-hours" and "you guys" are often used as examples of sexist language. On and on.
1 - https://www.npr.org/sections/newsandviews/2008/07/is_black_h...