• Nima@leminal.space
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    4 months ago

    maybe I’m not seeing where the smoking gun is, here. I see a guy saying something akin to “can we not do this here in the github please”

    and then I see a bunch of people blowing up and yelling about “dehumanization” over it.

    …why is this such a huge deal exactly?

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      4 months ago

      Absolutely nothing. The fact that they had to bring up a totally irrelevant 3 year old issue during an event that is supposed to be celebrated tells you a lot. They have been blatantly brigading various communities just for attention, and probably to get the dev cancelled or something. Even this post, the privacy community does not need this whole chain of replies. And yet, they overshadow every legit discussion with this bullshit unprompted.

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        so I don’t understand. why are all these comments yelling the same stuff? did they just decide to harass this one guy for saying “take it somewhere else, please”?

        I’m trying to find anything malicious in anything he’s said. I’m finding nothing but a dude working on a browser.

        this kind of behavior scares me greatly. I know individuals who have been victims of real transphobia. this seems to be a simple language difference. and I think targeting this guy is a mistake.

        Flooding and being loud doesn’t make them right. it just means they’re loud.

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          I’m trying to find anything malicious in anything he’s said

          They use the “silence is violence” trope to harass and terrorize projects, hiding behind their “protected status” as a transgender. Whenever someone rejects anything that calls for “greater inclusion”, they go nuclear and tell all their friends to do the same. The bullied becomes the bully. It’s very childish. It’s always people that never contribute any meaningful code as well.

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            4 months ago

            edit omg I’m sorry I was replying to the wrong comment. they got me fucked up. lol

            I’m with you. i see this a lot in the lgbt community and nobody calls them out on it.

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      4 months ago

      Changing “he” to “they” isn’t a political change, or shouldn’t be if you’re not a fucking shithead