Debian developer demoted, quits after two decades with project
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I pay actual money every month to organizations that could be described as part of the woke-conspiracy, I believe in them, but some parts of this culture are simply ridiculous. They mean well but all this analyzing/micro-aggression crap is a coping mechanism that I can only feel leads to a weak mind.
I remember asking someone, from a position of genuine curiousity (albeit slightly morbid because I was surprised and felt it was subtly quite misandrist), why they felt having any men in an event for women to write code in made her feel threatened, and I got insta-talked-down-to by a moderator. This was at a university, they build these environments to try and help, but they end up separating people from arguments/other culture which I think just makes people lazy, dumb, and arrogant. I'm not in the "burn the whole rotten system down" camp, but it was eye-opening.
Imo the phrase "subconscious bullying" I think about covers "micro-aggressions" and was available before, but, idk, using that probably makes those accused of it less likely to engage.
My politics haven't changed though.
[0] There was a great bit in the series Rules of the Game where a character says "Don't use words like 'hottie' or 'lush'; it's marginalising." The choice of "marginalising" over "offensive" is a clever one; offensive language is subjective, whereas marginalizing language objectively reinforces existing power structures designed to exclude.
English might not be my native language but, in my opinion, this statements contradicts itself.
eg he called SJW's at debian leadership "brainless feminists". you could have made much better and more grounded arguments.
the debian community improving? no, it's on a downwards spiral since.
In this case I don't know enough about Debian to say, but the idea that "politics" is by definition irrelevant to software projects by virtue of ignoring this cultural/human aspect is why people don't like nerds (which I do think is a very hurtful stereotype mostly peddled by jealous/confused morons, but it's not always wrong)
All of which are quite irrelevant to the incredibly exaggerated gender and identity politics landscape of the US right now
What's wrong with 'contemporary politics?' Are the politics of yesteryear actually preferable?
And that has nothing to do with an open source operating system.
But, don't forget the nonconsensual genital mutilation of infants. It's waning in popularity, but still incredibly common both in males and children with ambiguous genitalia.
> And that has nothing to do with an open source operating system.
That presumes an ideal, spherical, frictionless maintainer/contributer in a vacuum. Open source operating systems are developed and used by real humans.
Nonetheless, girls under the age of 18 are having their healthy breasts removed for reasons of 'gender affirmation'. With some bitterly regretting it when they become adults.
Here's one particularly shocking example of this being done, to a 13-year-old girl: https://4w.pub/tiktok-gender-doctor-per-breast-removal-on-13...
And here's a peer-reviewed paper describing a cohort who had such surgery, many of whom were minors: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abst... (see the figure titled "Age at Chest Surgery in the Postsurgical Cohort" - it shows that 33 of the 68 study participants were under the age of 18 when they had the surgery).
> They do allow puberty blockers, which are commonly used in cisgender children who experience precocious puberty, and are reversible.
It's only reversible up to a point. And the long-term side effects of using these drugs for children with a gender dysphoria diagnosis (who may be prescribed these at a later age range than children with precocious puberty) are unknown. There is currently much concern within the medical establishment about potentially damaging effects on teenage brain and bone development.
> Your claim of brainwashing is unhelpful to any conversation.
The commenter above used strong language, but that does indeed seem to be what is happening for many young people in this situation. Here's a fascinating account of one detransitioner about what she went through regarding this: https://lacroicsz.substack.com/p/by-any-other-name, well worth reading for anyone with a passing interest in this topic.
Source?
I don't have a good source either way, but I most recently heard the issue described in the economist and their description definitely doesn't seem reversible.
>There are mounting worries about the use of puberty-blockers, which may be given to trans-identifying children from about the age of nine, and the cross-sex hormones that in most cases follow. Blockers have not undergone a clinical trial for this purpose. They prevent bones from developing properly and may affect brain development. When combined with cross-sex hormones they can lead to infertility and inability to have an orgasm. Several countries are curtailing their use.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/03/05/dont-mess...
In order to make progress you can't throw out people because their opinions differs from yours. Identity politics is something that destroys productivity and prohibits challenging thoughts since it basically requires everyone to think and act in the same way.
Just look at Mozilla, Firefox usage it's the lowest it's ever been and their focus seems to be on everything except what's relevant to their core business.