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Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements by medellin on Monday May 06, 2024 @04:18AM (#40272395)
I’m still looking for the single person who was offended by the use of master as the default git branch name. I never found them but everyone got to pretend like they were making a difference for a little bit.

These statements are the exact same thing to me.

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Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements by aleph_minus_one on Monday May 06, 2024 @07:35AM (#40273434)
> I never found them but everyone got to pretend like they were making a difference for a little bit.

Keyword: virtue signalling

> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling

(in Germany, it is common to use a much more derogatory term for a related concept: "[der] Tugendterror" [virtue terror]).

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Re:MIT abandons use of DEI statements by aleph_minus_one on Monday May 06, 2024 @12:54PM (#40276694)
EDIT: I accidentally linked the German Wikipedia page. Here the link to the English Wikipedia:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling

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