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Re:A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by hombre_fatal on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @07:01PM (#19213317)
It's less about privilege being challenged, more about "inclusion" being used to justify just about anything and often going too far.

Here's a comment in an official nodejs repository that got edited by a contributor to correct a pronoun on somebody else's post: https://github.com/nodejs/package-maintenance/issues/77#issu... (click the "edited" dropdown)

That you yourself come right out the gate guns blazing about "privilege" shows exactly why people prefer to just not have the discussion at all anymore on this forum. It seems more like flamebait and it never ends well.

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Re:A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by mises on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @08:40PM (#19213822)
This reminds me of the whole "master/slave" nonsense. Past HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17954823
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Re:A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by kelnos on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @07:25PM (#19213413)
I feel like you picked a bad example; I imagine it sucks to be referred to as "he" when you're not a "he".
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Re:A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by pritambaral on Thursday February 21, 2019 @05:33AM (#19215882)
> I imagine it sucks to be referred to as "he" when you're not a "he".

It does. But I wouldn't go and change someone else's speech to say something other than what they said, rather than just telling them politely, because it also sucks to have one's words twisted. In fact, to have it twisted while attached to your name (which is what happened here) is worse than being referred to by someone, in their words, in the wrong gender.

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Re:A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by lxmcneill on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @07:19PM (#19213383)
I think this has less to do with respect and more to do with detracting from the original discussion e.g. source code integrity having nothing to do with human genitalia.
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Re:A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by xnxn on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @08:16PM (#19213685)
Gender is also not about genitalia, fwiw.

I see that the author of the edited comment got defensive about it and went on an irrelevant rant about singular they. Wish people like that would grow up a bit.

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Re:A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors by icebraining on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @08:56PM (#19213890)
Eh, having others edit comments attributed to us is weird, regardless of the context, I can see why people would get defensive. At least SO shows the editing user pretty clearly, on Github it's almost invisible.
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