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Blindness is not ignorance. (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] TunaCowboy 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This is such a tired argument. The terminology never bothered most people, that was part of the problem. As communities found that it was in fact hurtful to some, we listened, learned from their perspective, and adopted more accurate terms.

The world didn't end, everything went on working as it had before, and the only real fallout were self-centered complaints like yours. Sure, there are some performative COC assholes running around, but there are a lot of legitimate criticisms that affect people that you may not recognize or even understand.

You can still name your branches whatever the fuck you want, you can set your own defaults, you can leave them in your documentation, existing repositories were unaffected - this complaint is just a self tell that you likely suck to work with.

individuals with, I'm sure, little melanin

Yeah, ok bud, go fuck yourself.

[–] okamiueru 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Naah, you see. There is a different point of view that you aren't considering. If you cannot correctly identify racism, all you're doing is making noise. Which is perfect, if you'd rather quibble over bullshit and ban episodes of Community, while systemic racism is everywhere in the US.

Also, of course it didn't bother anyone, since it had fuck all to do with racism. That's kinda my point. Racism is a very real thing, and a very real problem. So people who want to make a fuss about these things can go fuck off and see if they can't figure out what racism actually is.

PS: I'm also not bothered in the slightest if I name the branch main or master. I'm not sure if you'll believe that. What I do take offense is the failure to identify that this in fact, has nothing to do with racism.

PPS: Feel free to downvote me and move on. I'm annoyed that I brought it up.

individuals with, I’m sure, little melanin

Yeah, ok bud, go fuck yourself.

Why's that? Why did you take offense at that in particular? Surely you're not a white dude who's been offended on behalf of someone else on this very topic, right? It would be somewhat amusing in this otherwise pointless endeavour. How dare I belittle the importance of this "good deed" that made you feel good about "doing something"? Do you have to do something else now? Sheesh. Wasn't that enough?