It's time to stop being political

[torhu]

On Monday, 27 January 2025 at 09:29:17 UTC, claptrap wrote:
> On Sunday, 26 January 2025 at 22:41:03 UTC, torhu wrote:
>> On Sunday, 26 January 2025 at 18:42:01 UTC, IchorDev wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 26 January 2025 at 02:19:04 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>>>> I went to the community Discord and searched the history for 
>>>> your username.
>>>>
>>>> Here's what actually happened: you saw one user in the 
>>>> Discord with pronouns in their display name and threw a 
>>>> tantrum about
>>>> it.
>>>
>>> Maybe the lesson to be learned is that much like the 
>>> ‘Boolean’ logic in our hardware that operates by 
>>> reinterpreting arbitrary voltages as low and high, we too 
>>> arbitrarily categorise things as political because they’re 
>>> foreign to our black and white perception of the world.
>>
>> Let's call it ideological instead of political if you prefer 
>> that.
>
> It was neither, it was personal, it was in their profile, no 
> different than wearing a cross round your neck, or a dodgers 
> t-shirt. Its what humans do, they display to other humans 
> things about who they are. That's the whole point of a 
> "profile", so you can let people know a little bit about you.

Nope. And it's not profile, but the member list. Which is not the 
default on Discord, it has to be enabled by admins.

>
> You made it political because you got so upset about it you 
> felt the need to complain about it. IE. You are the one being 
> "ideological", you want to impose your ideology on others.
>

No, not true, and I don't have an idelogical stance on this. I 
just don't think people sexuality, ideology, fetishes, or 
whatever is something that needs to be accommodated in a Discord 
that's about programming. Nobody should need to know, or care.

> It's honestly depressing that you don't understand why such 
> behaviour is a problem.

I could say the same about your behavior, would that achieve 
anything?