@Beau Skunky  
Truer words, pal. I don’t know what it is about MLP that attracts people to read so deeply into it.

@DanielTepesKraus  
I suppose you can’t blame Hasbro for not wanting to get involved in the fan-drama.
 
I don’t think it was just the wall-eyes, but the voice, and name that gave those overly-sensitive people “unfortunate implications,” or is why they read to much into it.  
(Yet, of course nobody’s offended by Disney’s Goofy, or that man-child SpongeBob.)
 
Though, yeah people really overreacted on both sides of the “Derpygate” incident. It was probably one of the lowest points in the MLP fandom. (Either that, or the DWM drama.)
 
Still, I guess we should be thankful to still have the Derpster back at all, even if she can’t talk, or have her name mentioned anymore… (Remember back in the mid-Season 3 days when we all thought she was gone for good?)

@Tenafly Viper  
@Beau Skunky  
A lot of it was actually poor assumptions on a lot of people’s parts. People seem to think Wall-Eyes instantly equals “retarded”. In reality, no. That’s like saying someone with a lisp is gay.
 
Originally “Derp” was uttered when you did or said something stupid. Like…  
Me: “Man, I wish Clancy Brown was in Spongebob Squarepants!”  
You: “Um, he is. He voices Mr. Krabs.”  
Me: “Oh really? Derp.”  
4Chan kind of adopted it to images where someone would have wall-eyes and thus looked stupid, and would add “Derp” and it more or less became a 4Chan meme. Of course when they spotted a wall-eyed pony, they did what 4chan does best and memed the fuck out of it.
 
Then when they put her in the show with a voice and name, a select group of people overreacted and started claiming it was offensive and ableist. Of course, this sort of thing tends to snowball as more people jump on the bandwagon without bothering to do any real research (I literally spent like five minutes on Google to find my sources for this comment) and a shitstorm was stirred up.
 
All in all, it was one big nasty misunderstanding that blossomed out of control, got a lot of people upset, and is still a touchy subject that the folks at Hasbro would much rather step gingerly around.

@Tenafly Viper  
Really? Wonder what definition of it Amy Keaton Rogers found then that would make her, and the others think/fear that. (Also, notice she said she never heard the term “albeist” before. It’s almost like the SJW crowd makes up politically-correct words sometimes…)
 
Still, I don’t want to get off on a tangent about “Derpygate,” but it’s possible they got away with “Derpy” on the trademark on the bottom of the Mimobot due to those things being made during/before the whole Derpygate drama/controversy exploded, before they could change that, and such.
 
So I’m not getting my hopes of the name “Derpy” ever coming back in official merch’, and such.  
Honestly, I wouldn’t mind them calling her by her alternate name “Ditzy-Doo,” (which some fans called her, and what they were originally going to call her in the “Last Round-up” script, as a call-back to the previous “Winter Wrap-up” episode) if they’re not allowed to use “Derpy” anymore. (Though, some fans who prefer “Derpy” get angered by calling her anything else, which is why I assume they’ve been wary of giving her any name at all nowadays.)

@Beau Skunky  
Even on the “derp” page for Encyclopedia Dramatica, there is not one, single mention or use of “derp” as any kind of slur, and that’s a site that will usually go out of its way to make such associations.

@Background Pony #1C6F  
I remember that, but I was refering to this wallpaper image. Still, surprised they snuck her name there, and apparently it’s TM = trademarked.
 
They still act pretty paranoid to use it, thanks to the “Derpygate drama,” and people claiming it’s a slur for “being retarded.” I always just assumed it was refering to mismatched eyes (a popular meme, even before the current MLP show came out) personally.

@Beau Skunky  

I still think it’s funny she’s just refered to as “fan favorite” instead of by name like the others.