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I'm sorry to invoke Godwin's law on this, but this is beyond absurd... Stating that defending that pronouns should be gendered is a fireable offense is more th

• rjknight 13y ago
  You can only invoke Godwin's law after someone else draws a comparison to the Nazis. You cannot invoke it on yourself prior to drawing a comparison to the Holy Inquisition, no matter how far beyond absurdity the situation may be.
  • clarkm 13y ago
    He probably just confused it with Poe's Law. There should be a law that concerns the confusion of the two.
  • kevrone 13y ago
    I didn't expect to find humor in this thread, but here I am, laughing. So that's nice.
  • Crito 13y ago
    The shrill objections that people raise when people draw parallels between things in history that are not strictly equal in all respects ("Do you really think this is equivalent to torturing people for being jewish?!?") are the same. It is a shame that people have to preface legitimate comparisons to historic events with these sort of disclaimers.
• deleted 13y ago
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• mcv 13y ago
  It's not criminalizing anything. It's pointing out that it goes against that company's policy. Is it really so bad for a company to have a policy to prefer gender equality? I'm rather amazed to see people rushing to defend sexism. Please tell me: what's so great about sexism? Why is it so wrong to fight it? Because I really don't get it.
  • CrLf 13y ago
    But where is the sexism in this? And since when did companies earned the right to fire people over matters of personal opinion? Or stating they would do it when the person isn't even an employee? This is a witch hunt, plain and simple. I'm amazed that people don't understand that this doesn't help the fight against sexism, at all...
    • mcv 13y ago
      Stating they would fire someone over this seems a bit unnecessary, but since he's not an employee at all, it has no direct consequences. But it does make clear what their company policy is: they would fire someone over this had it been an employee. It seems a small thing to fire someone over, but if gender equality and using gender neutral pronouns are important parts of their company policy, then someone actively resisting company policy and reverting the work of people who improved the product according to company policy, would be pretty serious. Also note that a female developer was ready to quit the community over Ben's behaviour. Ben directly contributed to a hostile atmosphere where an often excluded minority is likely to feel more excluded. That is definitely serious. You consider it a witch hunt because you don't care about gender neutral pronouns. Probably because you haven't felt subtly excluded all your life by gendered pronouns referring to other people. Fighting that exclusion is an important part of the fight against sexism.
• ben0x539 13y ago
  The holy inquisiton, noted gender equality fanatics.