• @[email protected]
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    18 days ago

    Language is extremely powerful. This is all part of the erasure (an integral part btw).

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      17 days ago

      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.

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        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

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        817 days ago

        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.