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Can we just not do this? Twisting every innocuous throwaway statement into some covert form of oppression gets really tedious after a while. "Come and see the
by douche 10y ago
Can we just not do this? Twisting every innocuous throwaway statement into some covert form of oppression gets really tedious after a while.
"Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help, help, I'm being repressed!"
- zrail 10y agoNope. Repeating the message in different ways is the only way to get it across, unfortunately. Throwaway assumptions really are death of a thousand cuts for people who don't fit those assumptions.
- roninb 10y agoYou're right. The point is that it's not a covert form of oppression, it's de facto. There is a straight, white male clique-iness to the programming world. Most blog posts assume the reader is a straight, white male. These are turn offs to some people, whether conscious or not.