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    3 months ago

    It’s the one with a dev that thinks that replacing “he” by “they” is political propaganda?

    Yeah, no thanks.

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        maybe I’m not seeing where the smoking gun is, here. I see a guy saying something akin to “can we not do this here in the github please”

        and then I see a bunch of people blowing up and yelling about “dehumanization” over it.

        …why is this such a huge deal exactly?

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          Changing “he” to “they” isn’t a political change, or shouldn’t be if you’re not a fucking shithead

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        Maybe I’m dumb, but I completely do not understand what the dev did to upset people.

        I read the thread and I’m confused about it.

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        Chill. Read the cited sources. It’s someone asking the community to not use the github forum for discussing the completely irrelevant topic. It’s not a fucking open forum it’s for developers to use as a resource. I don’t care if the person was giving out a $1,000,000 to anyone that commented, find an appropriate place to post your comments. I saw nothing against the topic itself but a bunch of angry responses. I mean if you read and are like na fuck that dude than 100% that’s your take but that’s the thing, its YOUR take. I hate seeing people so quick to draw the fuck this or fuck that card from absolutely zero rhetoric than what an anonymous internet comment said.

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          Treating social media as social media makes sense. If you don’t want your issue tracker to turn out like this, then stop using the social media code forge.

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      3 months ago

      for someone who can speak a language that lacks gendered pronouns, this “hysteria” over he/she/they is ridiculous!

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        Well on the contrary you should understand it more. A gendered pronoun carries an idea of gender, and having a genderless pronoun frees the sentence of this gender assumption. Nothing very hard to understand.

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          that’s what i thought i meant but thanks for the lesson I’ve never needed

          even your comment is, for me, coming from that ridiculous tension

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      What the fuck have to do one thing with another. You people are so fucked up . You make drama from anything imaginable

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      Do you think there are no assholes working for google or mozilla? Assholes are everywhere. And fuck cancel culture.

      Edit: I stand by what I said, you can downvote me all you want. It doesn’t matter to me one bit.

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        Cancel culture, this far-right myth that fascists love so much. You forgot to continue and talk about freedom of speech and how you are a centrist.

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          Where is the anti pronoun shit though? I’ve only seen one cited link and it was asking not to use the forum for discussing irrelevant topics. Github forums are resources used by all levels of developers for finding answers for issues with open source no instruction manual software development. Nothing i saw was anti-gender or pronoun anything (didt read thru the responding comments from users but why would they reflect on the person in question? Am I missing something beyond what op commented without providing any rhyme, reason or resource for?

          Edit: now I’m even more confused after reading a second commenter’s link that shows they made the requested edit.

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      people can have different views. you might not like them but it’s their views, not yours

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          I think most people would not agree that that’s what this actually is. Plus, attacking people for having an opinion is not how you progress in ANY way, whether societal or technical. This likely means they have some ulterior motive i.e. they just want to see the world burn and they were never actually going to contribute anything meaningful in the first place. I always check the activity history of people like that, and look into what kind of person they are in general, what they typically say and what kind of opinions they have. Often you will be shocked, disgusted and saddened. One of the other like-minded people that posted a similar story here on lemmy about the same drama, literally has a picture on their social of them wearing a hat that says “gender terrorist” and they also sell explicit content of themselves on fansly.

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            defending bigotry isn’t progress, and outright lying in the face of obvious bigotry isn’t doing yourself - or anyone - any favors.

            “don’t believe your lying eyes” is a line that only works on the most stupid and gullible, and you’re not going to get very far by telling your audience they’re too stupid to know better.

            oh, and if you think that defending bigotry is “contributing something meaningful,” think again.

            perhaps you should ask yourself: why do you like bigotry so much that you must dedicate so much time and effort and space to defending it? what sort of person does that make you?

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                “don’t believe your lying eyes”

                we covered that lie already. know any other tunes?

                how about explaining why you so enthusiastically defend bigotry?

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          yeah but does that affect the browser development process significantly?

          there are people with differing views in this world and you need to accept that if you want to actually achieve things

          I’m not saying i agree with him bc I don’t, but I wouldn’t base my opinion on the project on the small grievance i have with one dev’s opinions.

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            I don’t need to accept bigotry. I can just use a different browser.

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              have fun with google spyware ig when they finally do something like web environment integrity

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                  I like that Firefox exists and I use it and its forks but I really doubt that the aging gecko engine could be made competitive with chromium anytime soon enough to claw back market share to stop google doing shit like web environment integrity. Mozilla stopped work on Servo and they’re also kinda sus in terms of how they seem to be fine with receiving funding from google.

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        Did the OP say they couldn’t have different views? You must have replied to the wrong comment.

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          isn’t that what they implied?

          I’m fine with solumbran seeing the dev’s opinions as “wrong”, I just find how they base their whole view of the project on that single small disagreement makes them seem like a shortsighted dumbass

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            Oh that’s not at all what they implied. They implied you shouldn’t use the project based on the author’s opinions. That’s very different from implying the author isn’t entitled to their opinions.

            Boycotting the software doesn’t infringe on the author’s rights to have a shitty opinion. It’s called consequences for being an asshole.

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              They implied you shouldn’t use the project based on the author’s opinions.

              that’s what i said??

              Boycotting the software doesn’t infringe on the author’s rights to have a shitty opinion.

              how am i saying this? i’m saying that the guy is shortsighted for telling people to boycott the software just bc of the dev’s opinions

              i’m not arguing about the arbitary rights of authors, i’m just saying that boycotting isn’t an efficient use of resources

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        people can have different views. you might not like them but it’s their views, not yours

        Yes, they can. And I can also view their views with disdain… or even horror and choose not to support their efforts, whatever they may be.

        What you are really saying here is that you to some degree don’t disagree with Kling and so it’s this particular view you find acceptable to let pass. If it were something like “people should be fine eating small children” you might react differently.

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          What you are really saying here is that you to some degree don’t disagree with Kling

          ok lmao ctrl f my history for “they”

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            You don’t disagree with Kling enough to object. This is clearly demonstrated here.

            Edit: Let me a little more clear. Kling is the one bringing politics into it. The change was simple (one word!) and technically correct. It would be like if I said “I want our new logo to be red” and you said “don’t bring politics into it” when really I just like tomatoes and sunsets.