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Thoughtcrime is a great way to describe this.

I haven't seen any (comprehensive) explanation for why the original patch was rejected, but it might be as simple as that he wasn't interested in his project becoming part of someone else's fight. That doesn't mean he's sexist, it might be as simple as that he isn't interested in feminism's battle to redefine acceptable language. Reasonable people can disagree on that sort of thing without being women haters.

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> it might be as simple as that he isn't interested in feminism's battle to redefine acceptable language

Huh? Singular they has been in use for over five hundred years (it shows up in Shakespeare) and is standard for modern technical writing and in most other contexts. It is not a conspiracy of some sort.

Read the issue and the revert in particular. Once committed, it took deliberate desire to be provocative to remove it and threaten someone else's commuter status.

Thoughtcrime is the criminalization of thinking or speaking one's thoughts. Ben acted.

Thoughtcrime is a great way to describe this.

Thoughtcrime is an absolutely incorrect way to describe this; check your dictionary.

You might want to read up on the term "thoughtcrime."

Ben was an ass and very poorly represented the Node.js community. A "thoughtcrime" is a crime that is a crime because of the thoughts of the perpetrator.

Every country, essentially, has crimes based on your thoughts. It's called "intent to XXX", where XXX is some actual criminal act that you didn't do. "Intent to commit murder" is a crime for planning to kill someone.

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