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These terminology changes date back to the George Floyd protests, and instead of getting action to solve the actual problem, we got blog posts from GitHub about
by tapoxi 4y ago
These terminology changes date back to the George Floyd protests, and instead of getting action to solve the actual problem, we got blog posts from GitHub about changing the default branch name, so they can feel like they're doing something and elevate their brand.
- testbjjl 4y agoIt’s good to see how increasingly fewer people feel.
- deadly_syn 4y agoIirc this shift was actually much older and started as a pre-gamergate idealogical proxywar. There were even various projects parodying wokeness in tech at the time to comment on it. For example C+= which was a C++ derivative that had more "inclusive" keywords https://github.com/TheFeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equality https://github.com/TheFeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equa...