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that is quite the stretch. thinking a word should be updated or clarified does not make me a "conspiracy theorist". What am I conspiring against? people fighting so hard against a simple change to make the sentence more inclusive are just fighting to keep their antiquated system of bias in place

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They are proposing removing meritocracy based on their political view that certain classes of people will never be able to participate on a level playing field.

They are the ones advancing a narrative of exclusion, telling individuals in whole swaths that they can never compete in open source projects.

They have no evidence to support this of course, just what they were taught in their sociology classes at uni.

In reality though they are the ones pushing outdated bias.

> does not make me a "conspiracy theorist". What am I conspiring against?

Being a conspiracy theorist means you believe someone else is conspiring against you.

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