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Being removed for versions 25 to 38… honestly confirms the feminist narrative of some people being idiots, though. Like, imagine documentation on object orient
by jychang 7mo ago
Being removed for versions 25 to 38… honestly confirms the feminist narrative of some people being idiots, though.
Like, imagine documentation on object oriented programming being removed because it offended some functional programming folks.
- mhh__ 7mo agoThere is obviously truth to it but it does not confirm the whig interpretation i.e. it was supposedly _removed_ rather than never present
- pfannkuchen 7mo agoThis might be the first casual reference I've seen to whig history, is that memeplex picking up steam?
- voxl 7mo agoI think it communicates maliciousness not idiocy
- cheschire 7mo ago"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
- Applejinx 7mo agoThis gets complicated when the malicious have also read the saying and intentionally feign stupidity, but that's just chaos politics.
- voxl 7mo agoKeep word: adequately. This is not adequately explained by stupidity.
- chris_wot 7mo agoIt does occur to me that you can be both malicious and stupid at the same time.
- euroderf 7mo ago"Ripped from the headlines!"
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- davorak 7mo ago> adequately explained by stupidity What is the adequate explanation via stupidity in this case though? If there is one that sure maybe we should lean that way without further evidence.
- Larrikin 7mo agoIt feels like lately there are people committing malice knowingly trying to justify it as just a joke or unknowingly doing something from stupidity to make it more palatable to people that will then excuse them. I think this rule may have always been fake when anyone with even a little bit of power did it.
- TheOtherHobbes 7mo agoI've never understood why this is taken seriously. Law has clear concepts of bad faith and mens rea, and this implies they're irrelevant. Of course it's unproductive to start from assumptions of bad faith, which is a fair point. Bad faith requires evidence of intent, stupidity doesn't. But there are still situations where bad faith is a reasonable hypothesis to test. And some negative actors are clever enough to operate deliberately inside a zone of plausible deniability.
- amirhirsch 7mo agoAny sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. If you are the editor of Gray’s Anatomy, incompetence is malice.
- SecretDreams 7mo ago> incompetence is malice A subtle distinction, but I'd flip this as "malice is incompetence".
- entropicdrifter 7mo agoBoth ring true, in this case.
- austin-cheney 7mo agoI am not aware of actual code removal but skirting in that direction there was a movement, just a couple years back, to replace words that had become more offensive than they were in the recent past. One example is renaming master to main. I am not stating any opinion for or against any words or terms in this context.
- wat10000 7mo agoThat's not even remotely similar.
- pron 7mo agoSomewhat on a tangent, but when people talk about offensive language in the context of cultural criticism they don't mean terms that cause the people who hear them to be offended but things that may diminish the value of some people in the eyes of the people who hear them. I.e. something is offensive, in this sense, to some group X not if people in group X are offended when they themselves are exposed to it but if people who hear it may come to devalue people in group X. Whether it actually does or does not is another matter. In that sense, the discussion of the clitoris in an anatomy book is not offensive in the same way as the term master, but its absence is. Its inclusion could be offensive in the sense of scandalising some people who see it, but it's not the same sense.
- austin-cheney 7mo agoI cannot own the perspectives and unspoken histories of other people, nor will I try. Trying to do so ultimately only results in shades of self-censorship or poor imitation. Instead I will do my best to balance my language between brevity and specificity while hoping my instructions are clear, direct, and honest for the audience. Everything else is left to chance. I have found over the years, the degree of my communication's success is left more to the particularities and desires of group thought from a given audience than from the words themselves. I come to this conclusion through numerous times of providing the same communication, verbatim, to difference audiences and watching the wildly differing results. If I lived by commission I suspect I would alter my behavior. Instead, I manage a software team for a living.
- dvfjsdhgfv 7mo ago> Like, imagine documentation on object oriented programming being removed because it offended some functional programming folks. Let's not pretend we are fundamentally different from people living in other epochs, just biases change. We literally changed branch names of git repos because some people in one big country felt the naming could be offensive to another group of people.
- TripolitianFish 7mo ago[dead]
- lopsotronic 7mo agoBack in the Aughts a large number of home-schooling and educational reform organizations (leaning heavily on the Fundamentalist side of the Christian spectrum) had apparently determined that Set Theory originated in Socialist / Bisexual circles. "A Beka Book" (now styled "Abeka") was not just the province of homeschoolers, but made its way into the educational and academic curricula in many higher learning institutions. Unlike "modern math" theorists who believe mathematics is a creation of man and thus arbitrary and relative, A Beka Book teaches that the laws of mathematics are a creation of God and thus absolute, and that A Beka Book provides texts that are not burdened with modern ideas such as Set Theory. It would have made a great deal less fuss if it didn't turn out that Abeka books were being bought in their thousands with tax dollars. I suppose this sort of thing would barely raise an eyebrow these days. I've been seeing far more avante garde ideas flowing forth in the public-funded wells of the former Confederacy of late.