> It seems like most in this comment thread agree that this action, as a singular act, is a good thing
That's just because those of us who don't are afraid we'll get chewed out here, so we're not commenting.
That's just because those of us who don't are afraid we'll get chewed out here, so we're not commenting.
I honestly have no issue with people managing to contain their own righteous opinions (for either side of the debate) and not smash thousands of characters of spam and spam images into issue trackers.
That's not what they're for.
If the issue doesn't affect you directly (and it doesnt), and you're not a contributor to the project, then dont get involved.
There are places for discussions to happen.
Github issue trackers are not that place.
Please note I am not suggesting that this simple issue is in any way remotely related to the seriousness of what this quote refers too. However, plant enough seeds over long enough and you wake up one day without being able to express things that cause other people to be offended. You don't have to like what someone does or says but they should be able to none the less.
Versus
A lot of mostly poor, vulnerable, people of (by definition) below average intelligence, who are subjected to bullying based ontheir disability; who are segregated from society; who were sometimes sterilised against their will (sometimes without their knowledge); who were used as test subjects in medical experimentation; who were used by the Nazis to test mass-killing techniques before the Nazis started killed Jews; who are denied medical treatment; who are sometimes killed just because of their disability.
> Being silent about injustice against others, just because it does not affect you, is umwise.
Yes, I agree. I disagree about where the injustice lies.