Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country
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Re: Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country
#2It's sad when politics enters the community in git. Ugh.
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#3I think the maintainer handled this really well. Hats off!
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#4I find it amazing how cool and collected the response was.
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#5Ok, respect for his friendly and professional answer.
But... "Fuck off" would also have been very reasonable.
Re: Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country
#6It's sad when politics enters the community in git. Ugh.
Everything's politics, as this shows. You can't avoid it.
Re: Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country
#7It's sad when politics enters the community in git. Ugh.
I was annoyed when composer (PHP package manager) output, along with a lot of other stuff got clogged by colorful "Stand with Ukraine" messages (which, ironically, turns out to be orange in my terminal, instead of yellow). Now all this seems pretty mundane, though. Software is written by humans, after all, so all worst human behaviors will be projected onto it as well.
Re: Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country
#8It's sad when politics enters the community in git. Ugh.
Country flags are inherently political. They are a symbol of a political entity. If you don't want politics in "git" (or in code in general), then don't put it in.
That said, this particular issue should not have been turned into a state-politics issue. The element in question seems to be a language selection rather than a country selection, so the very first argument ("TaiWan flag should not be placed along with other REAL country flags") is a bad one regardless of how you think of Taiwan's political status.
I also agree with another commenter that said the maintainer dealt with this really well. Kudos to them!
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#9Imagine wasting time on cloning the repo, making a change, pushing it, creating a PR, all that time wasted because of hate. He could use that time to fix one of the 38 issues reported by other users...
Re: Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country
#10Taiwan is indeed not a country under international law, this was approved by ~everyone including the US. Not long ago we had a very interesting post here with a transcript of the famous Mao/Kissinger meeting. But, yes the flags are just visual indicators, they do not confirm that something is or isn't a country.