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Notepad++ v8.9.6.4 Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration

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Re: Notepad++ v8.9.6.4 Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration

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Post by hluska »

senderista wrote: post #7
graemep wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The West's Christian media are largely silent What Christian media? Western mass media is mostly secular.

Having known some Palestinian Christians, typical evangelicals in the US don't give a damn about their suffering.

What are you talking about and how is that related to western media being primarily secular?

Re: Notepad++ v8.9.6.4 Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration

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Post by hd4 »

just now seen one such comment in this thread get flagged/removed but the Gaza genocide is always conspicuous by its absence in these discussions; conspiracy of silence on this needs to end if we are to entertain the notion that we're serious about the other human rights issues being brought up otherwise the hypocrisy just gives you whiplash.

the selective outrage is just so galling.

Re: Notepad++ v8.9.6.4 Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration

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Post by jubilanti »

snvzz wrote: post #5

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Open source and free software has always had a healthy dose of both politics and cringe. If the people volunteering their labor want to name a release after something they care deeply about -- politics, sci-fi characters, furries, whatever -- because that's what helps keep them motivated, then that's their right. And you have a right to fork or use other products if it's just too cringe for you to handle. Enjoy kate.

Re: Notepad++ v8.9.6.4 Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration

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Post by __patchbit__ »

graemep wrote: post #4
__patchbit__ wrote: post #3

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> The West's Christian media are largely silent What Christian media? Western mass media is mostly secular.

To my mind the West is Christian since when before the wars after 2003 and the followup mass influx dangerous immigration.

And, the West's Christian mass media did used to cover power less biased to or blinded by the Zionists of the present.

Re: Notepad++ v8.9.6.4 Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration

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Post by alimbada »

So many in the software world pretend to care about human rights for some kind of credibility that they're good people. I've seen Ukrainian flags all over GitHub on many profiles or repos but the same people will be silent on the atrocities happening in Gaza, Lebanon, etc. Notepad++ left a sour taste in my mouth when they did the same and now they're "commemorating" something that happened decades ago rather than call attention to what's happening now.

Edit: here comes the Hasbara brigade with the downvotes.

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