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They're saying that the proposed gender change (in the docs) will most likely not be accepted. That's still bullshit, but to insinuate transphobia based on this comment alone goes too far IMHO.

In OSS, we don't have obligations to make software available to everyone. I could make a project with only documentation written in French and not include any people that don't speak French. And that's fine.

But when someone comes and says "hey I've translated the docs to english", you don't fire a "stop pushing your political anglicisation" in their face. It shows that you hold a grudge against anglicisation or people speaking english in general.

A more appropriate response would be "Thanks, but no, it was not a mistake, I prefer it the way it was".

This kind of artificial drama feels so astroturf-ish to me.

As soon as the project was publicized people have been angry at the use of C++ and now, a few hours later, people admit to creating github account for the sole purpose of dogpiling on the project. Either people really hate Foss devs or someone dont want this project to be a success.

As an able-bodied neurotypical 30-something straight white cis male with a suburban middle class upbringing and an office job, I don’t participate in identity politics.

For me, it's the response that's yikes, not them initially putting that language in. Initially putting the language in could just be thoughtless, but when they make the intentional choice to keep it in and use that justification, it shows where they stand. And it's a very yikes stance.

Spinning a PR that changes "he" to "they" into tired culture war BS is the real nonsense here. Improving inclusivity only becomes political when contrarian types throw a fit and make it that way.

What does coffee have to do with anything?

normally i don't argue with randos on the internet but i typed this up elsewhere and figured it could fit here, not for your sake, but for the benefit of other users, so...

do the people who're saying shit like "well do you not drive cars either because the auto industry is unethical" seriously not realize that contributing to free and open source software is involving yourself in a COMMUNITY? like that i'm warning people to steer clear of a shitty social space that's been known to be hostile to our kind in the past??? i'm not just doing this for ragebait engagement farming lmao

Yes because it's literally impossible to not use some services or products because you don't want to support their makers, because for some reason that means you can't use anything else either.

I've got a sneaking suspicion you just don't like people disagreeing with views that you share

The gender neutral change happened 13h, there was a commit that changed the desired "he" to a "it", which was after this whole thing blew up, since the new influx of comments on the pull request is "20h ago"

I doubt that'll stop the continuous influx of hate

It would've taken less time to merge this than the original comment denying it took to write.

Mastodon user posts about rejected change suggestion to neutral pronouns. Many critical comments get posted on the old rejected PR (arguably harassment, certainly not productive). Someone else creates a PR to fix grammar mistakes, including pronouns, it gets merged.