• TunaCowboy@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    This is such a tired argument. The terminology never bothered most people, that was part of the problem. As communities found that it was in fact hurtful to some, we listened, learned from their perspective, and adopted more accurate terms.

    The world didn’t end, everything went on working as it had before, and the only real fallout were self-centered complaints like yours. Sure, there are some performative COC assholes running around, but there are a lot of legitimate criticisms that affect people that you may not recognize or even understand.

    You can still name your branches whatever the fuck you want, you can set your own defaults, you can leave them in your documentation, existing repositories were unaffected - this complaint is just a self tell that you likely suck to work with.

    individuals with, I’m sure, little melanin

    Yeah, ok bud, go fuck yourself.

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      1 month ago

      Naah, you see. There is a different point of view that you aren’t considering. If you cannot correctly identify racism, all you’re doing is making noise. Which is perfect, if you’d rather quibble over bullshit and ban episodes of Community… While systemic racism is rampant in the US. It’s bat shit insane, how racist the US is. Everything there is viewed through the lens of race… so, don’t be so quick to dismiss people who might be just a taaaad tired of (mostly) American virtue signaling of what is, and isn’t racism.

      Also, of course it didn’t bother anyone, since it had fuck all to do with racism. That’s kinda my point. Racism is a very real thing, and a very real problem. So people who want to make a fuss about these things can go fuck off and figure out what racism actually is.

      PS: I’m also not bothered in the slightest if I name the branch main or master. I’m not sure if you’ll believe that. What I do take offense is the failure to identify that this in fact, has nothing to do with racism, so how about focus on, you know… the problems?

      PPS: Feel free to downvote me and move on. I’m annoyed that I brought it up.