This is great actually. It will solve the issue for having to use multiple platforms. I don’t want to use GitHub, but I am forced to. Assuming that people understand the importance of this and start switching to federated Git hosts, just the way they ditched Reddit for several alternatives, it would destroy the GitHub monopoly.

I would like to reclaim the word pariah, erase it’s existence and swap it with pariyah (pronounced purr-E-yeah), the plural form of pari (purr-E), meaning angels.

Pariah comes from the word Paraiyar (drummers). Paraiyar are a lower caste group from Tamil Nadu, a southern state in India, whose job revolved around drumming and witchcraft.

As if weaponization of this word from a caste to a slur wasn’t enough, the colonialist repurposed it, and made it international.

I can’t even imagine being a Paraiyar folks, and having to hear this word everyday.

If it helps, remove the word pariah from your vocabulary.