Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser
rickdg@lemmy.world 3 days agoLooks like a confused Swedish dude that when questioned about his use of English pronouns defaults to not wanting to get political. Is there more besides a misguided decision to avoid relevant political topics?
I think we should chastise people that insist on not getting political, but not necessarily boycott everything they do. Or at least we should apply the same moral demands to Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft or Google when choosing which browsers to support. Which of them is the least bad?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
There is nothing political about acknowledging peoples’ existence.
Scrollone@feddit.it 3 days ago
Existence? Because somebody used a wrong pronoun?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Language is extremely powerful.
Scrollone@feddit.it 3 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 a 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.
pogmommy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
You’re right, words are meaningless and language has no bearing on society at large. after all, fuiebt eidiowb rhe efifo quifopim.
Scrollone@feddit.it 3 days ago
There’s a big difference between negating the existence of people and what happend in this case, i.e. somebody writing a comment (only visible to him and other developers) using the male form.
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
The hyperbole here is insane. My trans friend’s Japanese parents are supportive of him, but they have some trouble with pronouns. If you’re not a native English speaker and learned the standard pronouns, then I think it’s just naturally too confusing. Pretty much all of them are translating in their minds in real-time.
ech@lemm.ee 3 days ago
They refused to use the right pronoun. One is a mistake. The other is a choice.
Scrollone@feddit.it 2 days ago
They refused to accept a PR from a random person with just one single word change for a string that only the developer himself is seeing.
I think the developer has all the rights not to accept such a PR which adds nothing to the program. And I think people that really care about gender inclusivity should stop focusing on this useless nitpicks, which makes inclusivity appear like made up by a bunch of trolls.
rickdg@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Don’t think we should be scared of the word “political” or “ideology”.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Yeah, that too… Everything is political. People just want to be able to ignore it until it directly affects them.
rickdg@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Indeed. It’s a privilege to be able to stay inside your little circle and say “we don’t do politics” or “ no ideology here”.