Don’t think we should be scared of the word “political” or “ideology”.
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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks agoThere is nothing political about acknowledging peoples’ existence.
rickdg@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Yeah, that too… Everything is political. People just want to be able to ignore it until it directly affects them.
rickdg@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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”.
Scrollone@feddit.it 5 weeks ago
Existence? Because somebody used a wrong pronoun?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Language is extremely powerful.
Scrollone@feddit.it 5 weeks 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.
AwakenedAce@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Right, except that’s not politically motivated, and is a useful change for people reading the code, both for women and non-binary people.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks 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.
pogmommy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Disclaimer: I’m not a software engineer or anything, and while I can usually figure out how to install something from git, that’s as far as my understanding of the platform goes…
Was it an unnecessary edit? Sure, maybe. Hell, could have just been someone trying to get a reaction (mission accomplished). That does not mean that the edit was incorrect in any way (gramatically, syntax-wise, etc.) or political. It’s just someone being annoying.
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 5 weeks 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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Can you really not understand that we’re talking about two completely different situations?
ech@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
They refused to use the right pronoun. One is a mistake. The other is a choice.
Scrollone@feddit.it 5 weeks 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.
ech@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
It’s pretty telling to focus on the dev’s right to reject inclusivity while simultaneously rejecting and deriding everyone else’s right to judge them for that.
And if it was such a useless change, why didn’t the dev reject it for that instead of saying it was “political”? He’s the one that declared the word itself, not the utility of the change, was the problem. Calling everyone else “trolls” for pointing that out is just disingenuous.