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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-3•edit-210 hours agoLanguage is extremely powerful. This is all part of the erasure (an integral part btw).
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-24 hours agoHmm I don’t think you really understand what happened. The developer wrote a comment (not visible to the end user) using the male form. A random person opened a pull request without any useful changes, except for changing that comment from “he” to “their”. The developer rejected that PR because it’s politically motivated and it doesn’t add anything else.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 hour agoI know what happened. Is it a stupid, unnecessary fix? Sure, probably. But that doesn’t mean it’s political. Trans people simply existing is not a political issue.
minus-squareVivian (they/them)linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-23 hours agoRight, except that’s not politically motivated, and is a useful change for people reading the code, both for women and non-binary people. Calling pronouns “political” is the dogwhistle they always use
Language is extremely powerful. This is all part of the erasure (an integral part btw).
Hmm I don’t think you really understand what happened.
The developer wrote a comment (not visible to the end user) using the male form.
A random person opened a pull request without any useful changes, except for changing that comment from “he” to “their”.
The developer rejected that PR because it’s politically motivated and it doesn’t add anything else.
I know what happened. Is it a stupid, unnecessary fix? Sure, probably. But that doesn’t mean it’s political. Trans people simply existing is not a political issue.
Right, except that’s not politically motivated, and is a useful change for people reading the code, both for women and non-binary people.
Calling pronouns “political” is the dogwhistle they always use