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Re:The Wikimedia Foundation spends Wikipedia donations on po... by hondo77 on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @08:48PM (#33171276)
> But even a hospital I used to support has gotten into the business of pronouns and stuff, and regardless of the merit of that sort of thing, it's not anywhere near the top of causes people expect their hospital donations to go to.

You're kidding, right? You won't donate to a hospital because "pronouns and stuff" isn't part of "their mandates"? How about sexual harassment? Should they turn a blind eye to that in the workplace because it's not part of their mandates. Lunch breaks? Birthday parties? Seriously, if pronouns is the reason you stopped donating to an otherwise worthy cause, I don't see the hospital as the problem.

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Re:The Wikimedia Foundation spends Wikipedia donations on po... by version_five on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:58PM (#33171834)
A smug dismissal doesn't change people's minds. You can accept that many people don't go in for their donations being spent this way, try to hide it from them, or write them off as donors. This sort of condescension doesn't do anything.
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Re:The Wikimedia Foundation spends Wikipedia donations on po... by agensaequivocum on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @01:13AM (#33173139)
Yes because the notion that one can choose his pronouns is one of the most insidious lies in contemporary culture.
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