Social media has messed everything up. Look at all those new comments on a dead thread. People can’t help but get involved and are excited to hop on the hate train. It’s kinda gross.
I’m not denying the need to fix the language. I agree with that. I’m saying the response itself is troubling.
The recent comments are from the announcement of the ladybird browser project which is forked from some browser code from Serenity OS, I guess people are digging into who wrote the code.
Not arguing that the new comments on the PR are good/bad or anything, just a bit of context.
Social media has messed everything up. Look at all those new comments on a dead thread. People can’t help but get involved and are excited to hop on the hate train. It’s kinda gross.
I’m not denying the need to fix the language. I agree with that. I’m saying the response itself is troubling.
FWIW they didn’t merge it, they closed the PR without merging, link to line that still exists on master.
The recent comments are from the announcement of the ladybird browser project which is forked from some browser code from Serenity OS, I guess people are digging into who wrote the code.
Not arguing that the new comments on the PR are good/bad or anything, just a bit of context.
The line has been changed to be gender neutral 9 hours ago. Victory!