Monero community doesn't "distance" itself from Bytecoin. It's widely known and talked about all the time. You obviously aren't familiar with the Monero space if you think this.
Monero uses the same protocol (CryptoNote) as Bytecoin. That's about where it ends. Who cares?
If we're going to start doing this guilt-by-association thing you should bring up all of it - including how the cryptographic hash function used by Bitcoin is in the SHA-2 family that was created by the NSA 😱