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I think you have a different view on the project from reality. According to Wikipedia, the name "The Gimp" is a Pulp Fiction reference. The people who came up with the name "The Gimp" don't even work on Gimp anymore. They're CEO and CTO of the company developing CockroachDB. To imply that the volunteers running Gimp's social media are some slur-crazy edgelords is counter productive.
I don't think any people think of the slur when talking about the project, and I think this is a bunch of Twitter drama nonsense. If you want to change it, then join the project and change it, don't harass volunteers.
A slur is a slur, no matter how you dress it.
If I made a program named "Fag*ot", I'm sure, nobody cared about my story how it's just a bunch of sticks.
That's not how it works. But there's an effort to fork the program and rename it.
The 'harassment': "can we join your instance?" - "no, your program name is a slur".