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Could you expand on what ideology this tool is broadcasting and what virtue is being signalled?
by sethaurus 1y ago
Could you expand on what ideology this tool is broadcasting and what virtue is being signalled?
- haskellshill 1y ago>Please call me (order of preference): They/them or She/her please. Take a wild guess
- Deestan 1y agoPlease show me on the doll where this stranger's personal identity hurt you.
- haskellshill 1y agoThey asked a question about what ideology was being referred to, and you're angry I clarified?
- haskellshill 1y agoAlso, you do know the > Please show me on the doll where this stranger hurt you phrasing is pretty closely associated with child abuse investigations, right? I don't know why you'd associate gender identity with that?
- anonfordays 1y agoAnd these Nazis, are they in the room with us now?
- sethaurus 1y agoWell that tells me the rough cultural area alt187 might be pointing to, but I could use some more clarity. Are you saying that pronouns/transgender/queerness are the ideology? Or are you showing them as shibboleths of a broader ideological tendency that's prevailing in FOSS?
- haskellshill 1y agoFor lack of a better term one might describe the ideology as "woke"
- alt187 1y agoThe proximity with that rough cultural area is only incidental, I think. In fact, I think if you sit around for 10 mlre years, the tide will have entirely turned. I'm not gonna get into detail, but for me, some defining elements: - A compulsive need to criticize, demean and replace every piece of code written in C by Rust (rarely, it's another language). - A willingness and strong activism to separate from figures that created the FOSS landscape, like Richard Stallman. - A sort of laxism towards non-free software, and a particularly cringy hype towards corporate lip service paid to OSS, or trojan horses. - Subtle propositions made to consolide FOSS communities around centralized services, and promiting those. This isn't exhaustive, because it's just off the top of my head.