the_wiz@feddit.org to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org · 1 month agoThe Age of Non-Woke Open Source is Beginningyoutu.beexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up10
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minus-squareMidnitte@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·30 days agoI’m sure being less inclusive will work out well. Open Source obviously thrives with less developers. 🙄
minus-squarethe_wiz@feddit.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·30 days agoI don’t think that the maintainers are less inclusive… they just don’t want virtue signaling and flagwaving. Remember this times?
minus-squareMidnitte@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·30 days agoWhen you remove signs saying all are welcome, you are putting up a sign not visible to you that only certain people are welcome. People may not know you’re a dog, but when all the signs are making fun of dogs, you know you’re a dog. I very solemnly make the plea that if you find inclusion to be repulsive, you should think long and hard about why that inclusion bothers you so much.
minus-squarethe_wiz@feddit.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·30 days agoI don’t find inclusion repulsive… I find it repulsive that many projects are now more about identity politics and virtue signaling than about, well, the project.
I’m sure being less inclusive will work out well. Open Source obviously thrives with less developers. 🙄
I don’t think that the maintainers are less inclusive… they just don’t want virtue signaling and flagwaving.
Remember this times?
When you remove signs saying all are welcome, you are putting up a sign not visible to you that only certain people are welcome.
People may not know you’re a dog, but when all the signs are making fun of dogs, you know you’re a dog.
I very solemnly make the plea that if you find inclusion to be repulsive, you should think long and hard about why that inclusion bothers you so much.
I don’t find inclusion repulsive… I find it repulsive that many projects are now more about identity politics and virtue signaling than about, well, the project.