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minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down7·6 hours agoExistence? Because somebody used a wrong pronoun?
minus-squarepogmommy@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down4·3 hours agoYou’re right, words are meaningless and language has no bearing on society at large. after all, fuiebt eidiowb rhe efifo quifopim.
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 minutes agoThere’s a big difference between negating the existence of people and what happend in this case, i.e. somebody writing a comment (only visible to him and other developers) using the male form.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down15·edit-26 hours agoLanguage is extremely powerful. This is all part of the erasure (an integral part btw).
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-220 minutes agoHmm I don’t think you really understand what happened. The developer wrote a comment (not visible to the end user) using the male form. A random person opened a pull request without any useful changes, except for changing that comment from “he” to “their”. The developer rejected that PR because it’s politically motivated and it doesn’t add anything else.
Existence? Because somebody used a wrong pronoun?
You’re right, words are meaningless and language has no bearing on society at large. after all, fuiebt eidiowb rhe efifo quifopim.
There’s a big difference between negating the existence of people and what happend in this case, i.e. somebody writing a comment (only visible to him and other developers) using the male form.
Language is extremely powerful. This is all part of the erasure (an integral part btw).
Hmm I don’t think you really understand what happened.
The developer wrote a comment (not visible to the end user) using the male form.
A random person opened a pull request without any useful changes, except for changing that comment from “he” to “their”.
The developer rejected that PR because it’s politically motivated and it doesn’t add anything else.