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Is It Worth Killing Mozilla to Shave Off Less Than 1% From Google’s Market Share? - Open Web Advocacy (open-web-advocacy.org)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Source? I read that there was an issue with gender neutral pronouns not being used in the codebase (he stated that he has no problem with gender neutral pronouns), but I'm not a simp for him or somebody to argue for lesser evils.

Edit - finally found it: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814

awesomekling commented on May 2, 2021

This project is not an appropriate arena to advertise your personal politics.

Not the best look for him, but if this is all the meat to your accusation, then I am going to have to disagree with your statements of him being "vocally against a minority" and "calling somebody's existence politics" - it seems like a stretch as nothing was said that targeted a minority or calling somebody's existence politics. Was he being needlessly pedantic and insensitive to a contributor whose only contribution was that PR? Yes, I'd say so.

The use of gender neutral pronouns or pronouns in a more general sense are not politics, I strongly disagree with him. It was his choice to die on this hill in this instance, but they now use gender neutral pronouns. Again, if there is more evidence besides this singular statement, I'm all ears. Is it still concerning? Of course.