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Dear moderators, could it be possible to revert to the original title of the post ? I think the title is the topic, not a minor release of Notepad++.
Dear moderators, could it be possible to revert to the original title of the post ? I think the title is the topic, not a minor release of Notepad++.
Ok, but a minor release of software with a political cause attached is not an on-topic HN submission. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Those are even worse. Why can't we let political discourse stay in political spaces? That used to be the norm and everyone was far less stressed out and amicable for it. Now every space has become a battleground for sociopolitical discourse and we're drawing lines everywhere.
Standing against discrimination, whether it's taking the form of racism, sexism, homophobia, or something else, isn't a political act. It's a human rights act.
That includes having the right to discriminate. While it may be unkind, it is a greater evil to force someone to interact with someone they don’t want to, even if it’s for reasons of race, sex, living gay, or just being ugly, mean, old or young, or any other reason.
Only in an unfree world there is no discrimination.
I’m reminded of a tattoo I once saw written in runes: “free men are not equal; equal men are not free”.
I use Notepad++ on Windows. Never cared for its author, let alone the author's beliefs.
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The Washington Post is just as bad: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50205592
Goddamn, there's no way this wasn't intentional. Imagine if Fox News had called Dylann Roof something like a "mild-mannered young man", we would have never heard the end of that. Frightening to see that from the Post.
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I assume an overwhelming majority of National Front voters don't want people like him out, they just don't want their salaries dumped and their teachers beheaded. Also, it's not the first time this guy uses his influence as the leader of a popular project to push his politics. It's getting boring.
As a french: your assumption is wrong.
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Makes me wonder if he's considered putting anything in the code to prevent it... Perhaps someone should test a few racist phrases with wireshark on?
Yes...because everyone knows that the best way to find out what open source software is doing is to fire up wireshark and type out racism... Totally no other way.
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Those are even worse. Why can't we let political discourse stay in political spaces? That used to be the norm and everyone was far less stressed out and amicable for it. Now every space has become a battleground for sociopolitical discourse and we're drawing lines everywhere.
To me, it's an integral part of celebrity. We expect them to be role models, give up their privacy and generally hold them to higher standards, so why shouldn't they be able to use their fame to support something they believe in?
This seems like an odd expectation since so few of them have functional relationships and are an endless source of scandal.
Also, literally nothing about their profession makes them an authority on any political, social, or human rights issue.
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Those are even worse. Why can't we let political discourse stay in political spaces? That used to be the norm and everyone was far less stressed out and amicable for it. Now every space has become a battleground for sociopolitical discourse and we're drawing lines everywhere.
Standing against discrimination, whether it's taking the form of racism, sexism, homophobia, or something else, isn't a political act. It's a human rights act.
Most of them are simply pushing specific candidates, without even a mention of any human rights issue at all.