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Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by fzeroracer on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @07:55PM (#21277461)
If it was non-political, then you would expect to see no debates on the issue. Given that there was a post here on HN [1] about an initiative for women devolving into flamebait and arguments about reverse sexism, I think one cannot say it's non-political. As most things are political.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19464269

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Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by manfredo on Thursday October 17, 2019 @02:29AM (#21279434)
> about an initiative for women devolving into flamebait and arguments about reverse sexism, I think one cannot say it's non-political. As most things are political.

More specifically, an initiate that explicitly excluded non-females elicited comments that said this program was sexist and exclusionary.

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Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by SpicyLemonZest on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @08:37PM (#21277780)
I'm not sure why I would expect that. People have heated debates on lots of nonpolitical things. Have you seen the HN threads on microservices?

Perhaps more on point, Gitlab surely doesn't have a policy that you can't discuss anything people disagree on at work.

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