(30-09-2015, 05:56 AM)dtnt Wrote: I remember the 'discussion' on Github. I remember how I nearly threw up. I remember how fucking mad I was. Because instead of actually trying to make a difference (by .. by doing basically anything more sane than criticizing the wording in a software project) they just caused a ruckus. I read an interesting article about these kind of things yesterday - but to stick to the topic, it was stupid, unneeded and set a bad precedent.

Excellent article.

Quote:What are we doing to our students if we encourage them to develop extra-thin skin just before they leave the cocoon of adult protection?

That sentence sums it up pretty well.

It also strengthen my article about social changes in 2015.

The big problem is that the social media are feeding the movement and accelerating it.
They turn the crowd into paranoid puppets.
People "fight" to be the "most miserable amongst miserable" using those "micro-aggressions" as pretexts.

It would be like trying to help cancer patients by banning the word cancer from the dictionary.

Thanks for sharing.