XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 06/08/2024 18:09, Sebastian wrote:   
   > In comp.os.linux.advocacy tinker123  wrote:   
   >> I can understand being annoyed by such a request.   
   >>   
   >> I probably would have put my annoyance aside and granted it.   
   >>   
   >> A few harmless search and replace operations.   
   >>   
   >> I think people overreacted to the request.   
   >>   
   >> It was a small request.   
   >   
   > It wasn't the request itself that elicited that response, but   
   > its purpose: Bringing SerenityOS in line with the left's rules.   
   >   
   > Now they're accusing the developers of being SLAVE OWNERS   
   > because they didn't go along with the earlier demand that   
   > all projects rename their master branches. They still call   
   > their master branches "master".   
   >   
   > They're cracking down on thoughtcrime. What they're actually   
   > offended by is that the developers don't find it offensive   
   > to use "he" as the pronoun for a hypothetical person, and   
   > they don't think there's anything wrong with the badspeak   
   > word "master", which indicates that they haven't been   
   > thinking what they were told to think.   
   >   
   > If anyone ever tells me to rename any of my projects' master   
   > branches or else be branded RAYCISS, I'm renaming it to nigger.   
   No, that's reserved for 'bugs' and spaghetti ' code is the 'woodpile'   
      
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   I was brought up to believe that you should never give offence if you   
   can avoid it; the new culture tells us you should always take offence if   
   you can. There are now experts in the art of taking offence, indeed   
   whole academic subjects, such as 'gender studies', devoted to it.   
      
   Sir Roger Scruton   
      
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