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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1417·
    10 hours ago

    Language is extremely powerful. This is all part of the erasure (an integral part btw).

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
      5·
      4 hours ago

      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.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        I know what happened. Is it a stupid, unnecessary fix? Sure, probably. But that doesn’t mean it’s political. Trans people simply existing is not a political issue.

      • Vivian (they/them)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        32·
        3 hours ago

        Right, except that’s not politically motivated, and is a useful change for people reading the code, both for women and non-binary people.

        Calling pronouns “political” is the dogwhistle they always use