I never said she was responsible for it, but the same line of thinking behind that is what allowed a professional bully to get hired in the first place.

Professional bully? She's a Ruby developer, and a damned good one at that by all accounts. Even if you choose to categorize her as a "bully," it's very evident that "bullying" is a hobby of hers and not related to how well she does her job (programming). If her contributions to community management software are valuable, what does it matter her politics?

I reiterate that if you are looking for a place to host your code where a) nobody has political opinions or b) everybody agrees with you about everything, you will never find it.

You may be the only person in the whole world without any political opinions whatsoever. I realize that's difficult and I applaud your intellectual independence.

> If her contributions to community management software are valuable, what does it matter her politics?

Because she has chased away other good developers by bullying them and is now in a position of authority.

> I reiterate that if you are looking for a place to host your code where a) nobody has political opinions or b) everybody agrees with you about everything, you will never find it.

What? We had exactly that for decades, code hosts that were completely neutral on politics. I don't care if people disagree with me, as long as it has nothing to do with the projects. In fact, it's what made the open source world special, no one gave a fuck who you were as long as you produced good code. Now it's been invaded by people that think meritocracy is a bad idea.

Your building up quite a straw man there.

When you argue for the "absence of politics", you're actually arguing for the "default politics we've had for generations", which is heteronormative, euro-centric, etc. The "absence of politics" leads to widespread usage of anti-LGBT, anti-women, and anti-minority slurs and policies that disadvantage those groups by not recognizing their institutional disadvantage.

Without getting into details, I completely disagree. Being apolitical is not supporting "default politics". I support LGBT rights and equality for all, but this is the sort of BS that is making me and many others switch political allegiances.

But you're not apolitical. You're calling a transgender Ruby programmer a bully for asking if a maintainer on a project's harmful opinions about trans people reflected that project's opinions about trans people, and the reply was that their shitty opinions were comparable to somebody not liking candy. There's no bullying going on there.

>I support LGBT rights and equality for all, but this is the sort of BS that is making me and many others switch political allegiances.

I appreciate that you can say that, but honestly if stuff as minor as an uncomfortable conversation on GitHub is causing you to switch political allegiance (to whom/what exactly, might I ask?) you might reconsider whose side you were on in the first place.

> Even if you choose to categorize her as a "bully," it's very evident that "bullying" is a hobby of hers and not related to how well she does her job (programming).

If she got her job at github through bullying then she is a professional bully.

>If she got her job at github through bullying then she is a professional bully.

How are we defining bullying, exactly? I'll let you do this because nothing that happened in that thread meets my definition.

What evidence do you have that she got her job through this alleged bullying?

> Even if you choose to categorize her as a "bully," it's very evident that "bullying" is a hobby of hers and not related to how well she does her job (programming).

Yeah but GitHub isn't a meritocracy remember...