Jenniferplusplus
Community management protip/serenityOS subtoot:
This one's for the "nice liberals" who think gender stuff is just "too political".
Tough shit.
When you're in a position of influence in a community, then everything you do shapes the community. If you got this far by ignoring a social justice topic, good for you I guess. But you fucked up. There is no neutral position. Either you welcome marginalized people, or you welcome the people who want to keep them in the margins. You can't do both.
Aral Balkan
@joelving @jenniferplusplus “…as to not alienate cis, white, heterosexual USian men.”
Jenniferplusplus
I don't know or care whether what's his name is terf, or white supremacist, or whatever. It doesn't matter. He's creating a space that caters to them, and that's functionally the same thing.
Peter Toft Jølving
@jenniferplusplus I can't tell if they're really so breathtakingly ignorant or if it's the usual "liberalism will always yield to fascism", but saying
> We have had the long-standing rule in our project that we do not concern ourselves with controversial topics as to not alienate anyone who'd like to join in the project
and not recognize how it alienates marginalized people are just 🤯
Jenniferplusplus
Your options are to merge the PR that changes your habitual he to they, or become a nazi bar.
There's nothing in between. Either you have a space where tiny little gestures of welcome toward marginalized people pass without comment, or you throw up a banner that says white supremacists welcome.
Rimu
@steely_glint @aral @joelving @jenniferplusplus Yeah, "they" is just objectively better grammar in that sentence. This whole thing is bizarre.
Tim Panton
@aral @joelving @jenniferplusplus ‘he’ doesn’t even make sense on those terms, since it implies that the coder is not only male but also singular so it proclaims “no teamwork allowed here”. Sigh.
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