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« on: September 29, 2018, 12:38:28 PM »

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« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2018, 12:58:26 PM »

Geez. Good on the coders.
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« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2018, 01:50:50 PM »

6. “‘In all that time I never had to know or care whether my fellow contributors were white, black, male, female, straight, gay, or from the planet Mars, only whether their code was good’; namely, in a project that receives contributions from volunteers who are anonymous beyond a chosen handle, specious claims of exclusion and harassment crumble beneath the most haphazard scrutiny. Contributors reveal as much about their race, sex, and orientation as they want because no one cares about that tangential sh**t at the end of the day. If there really was some “straight white males only” mentality, the community would insist on determining whether a new contributor is “one of us” before accepting their code, but they don’t do that in the slightest. Thus, it’s patently clear there is no culture of exclusion, but rather a culture of total indifference to individual differences beyond coding ability. The rhetoric of diversity and inclusiveness is just a weapon being used to attack a community that is inherently opposed to identity politics, which is why they’re seen as such a threat to these SJW gestapo.”

I have a different experience in an actual office, but I found online in open source projects that it didn't really matter, especially when the contributors do not reveal personal details. There is also the problem that computer science is still an overwhelmingly white, male profession. It's just how it worked out for some reason.

Overall I disagree with this policy for a number of reasons.
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