Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country

Re:Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country by krick on Friday July 21, 2023 @07:58AM (#36812805)

Not really. I mean, this obviously depends on what you consider political, but as the maintainer correctly noted a flag doesn't have to represent a country. I can have my own flag. Depending on my prominence, my flag can be showcased in Wikipedia and you can even include it into your CSS library. People may even recognize it. If it makes me a "political entity" is an open question, however.

But filing tickets demanding to remove something from a CSS library because it "isn't a real country" definitely is a political statement. Which, for me, is always very unwelcome, but quite mundane at this point.

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Re:Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country by retrac on Friday July 21, 2023 @08:38AM (#36813088)

As the parent commenter said, it is inherently political.

If a Quebec separatist wrote some software, they might give Quebec a flag of its own like a country in the software. (I've seen it before!) Political statement. Or they could leave it out and use the Canadian flag -- also a political statement in the eyes of some. There's no way out of it, really.

It would be sad and petty if a GitHub PR spam war started over the flag in question. But politics is often sad and petty.

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