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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by amanaplanacanal on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @07:20AM (#26489474)
I don’t think so. It’s not that no true Scotsmen are idiots, it’s just that the idiots are not representative. Maybe 10% of Scotsmen are idiots. The other 90% are fine.

The idiots are just very loud on social media.

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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by newswasboring on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @08:58AM (#26490453)
This is a soft form of the same argument. Whatever may be the proportion of those people, the community still has to own up to it if this portion exists.
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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by tremon on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @09:58AM (#26491301)
the community still has to own up to it

Why? For what purpose are you burdening 90% of True Scotsmen with an obligation of your choosing?

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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change by newswasboring on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:21PM (#26495709)
Because it's a part of their community and each community needs to take care of its own problems.
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