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As a white person, the difference this change will make to my life is so negligible that if it makes one PoC feel more included then it's fine by me. I totally

As a white person, the difference this change will make to my life is so negligible that if it makes one PoC feel more included then it's fine by me. I totally take on board the point that a lot of man hours have been consumed debating how and when to execute this change. Possibly to the exclusion of doing something potentially more meaningful. However, the glee with which the authors opinion is accepted as the opinion of an entire race of people by other comments here strikes me as an example of confirmation bias. Simply finding one PoC who agrees with you doesn't validate your view point.

mFixman 6y ago
I was expecting the article to list some technical problems coming from switching `remote/master` to `remote/main`. There aren't any, and reading this article took more time than trying to remember which one to use for this project. Is there a name for anti-political correctness, where people go into long rants about how changes that have zero effect in their lives are a sign of the collapse of society? They are pretty popular in social media and specially on this site.
thinkingemote 6y ago
"if it makes one PoC feel more included" How about if it does make one PoC feel more included but it also makes three PoC feel more excluded at the same time? Is it then about numbers? Shouldn't you therefore look at and ask the community of PoC what they think as a whole? To me, the article was saying that this holistic consultation was not done. And this has lead to the waste of time, energy and feeling of exclusion. Other comments in this thread have said that this consultation (seems to be limited to employees in Microsoft, etc) has been done... Confirmation bias can be examined rationally. The arguments in favour of this change can be explained away in multiple ways which will override any data that is found.
anatoly 6y ago
You're fine with the change because of one hypothetical PoC you imagine who likes it, but you resent that others are not fine with the change and feel supported by one real PoC who dislikes it.
- VBprogrammer 6y ago
  Not you are presenting a false dichotomy. I'm not speaking for or against this change. I'm speaking against the people who are butt hurt by this change because it's not even master as in slave but master as in boot record, using this one data point to justify their position. It's the same as those people who find the one doctor or nurse who thinks that covid-19 is just a flu or that one engineer who concludes that the twin towers couldn't possibly have fallen because of fire alone.

mFixman 6y ago

I was expecting the article to list some technical problems coming from switching `remote/master` to `remote/main`. There aren't any, and reading this article took more time than trying to remember which one to use for this project. Is there a name for anti-political correctness, where people go into long rants about how changes that have zero effect in their lives are a sign of the collapse of society? They are pretty popular in social media and specially on this site.

thinkingemote 6y ago

"if it makes one PoC feel more included" How about if it does make one PoC feel more included but it also makes three PoC feel more excluded at the same time? Is it then about numbers? Shouldn't you therefore look at and ask the community of PoC what they think as a whole? To me, the article was saying that this holistic consultation was not done. And this has lead to the waste of time, energy and feeling of exclusion. Other comments in this thread have said that this consultation (seems to be limited to employees in Microsoft, etc) has been done... Confirmation bias can be examined rationally. The arguments in favour of this change can be explained away in multiple ways which will override any data that is found.

anatoly 6y ago

You're fine with the change because of one hypothetical PoC you imagine who likes it, but you resent that others are not fine with the change and feel supported by one real PoC who dislikes it.

VBprogrammer 6y ago
Not you are presenting a false dichotomy. I'm not speaking for or against this change. I'm speaking against the people who are butt hurt by this change because it's not even master as in slave but master as in boot record, using this one data point to justify their position. It's the same as those people who find the one doctor or nurse who thinks that covid-19 is just a flu or that one engineer who concludes that the twin towers couldn't possibly have fallen because of fire alone.