Hi Marco, > On Apr 18, 2021, at 8:54 PM, Marco Nguitragool <ma...@nightlabs.de> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > please don't bow to this insanity of political correctness. Language control > / dictates are an important corner stone of every dictatorship. I experienced > this myself in the former Soviet east. I don't want to experience this again > and decisively object it.
Can you share some personal experience with renaming potentially offensive terms to better welcome people to a project? > > People accepting political correctness are followers of dictatorship -- > leading to the worst chapters of history -- again. It's not clear what dictatorship has to do with renaming a Git branch. Perhaps you can elaborate? > > Always in history, not the evil wrong-doers are the main problem, but the > followers bowing to them and (at least silently) supporting them! I'd say evil wrong-doers are the main problem. Do you have another experience? Regards, Craig > > Regards, Marco. > > P.S.: I'm resending this e-mail. The last e-mail was lost (censorship?). > Trying it again, now. > > > Am 17.04.21 um 02:41 schrieb Craig Russell: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to have all of us come to the same understanding of renaming the >> main branch of our repos. >> >> Here is some background reading to inform our decision. >> https://github.com/pmmmwh/react-refresh-webpack-plugin/issues/113 >> >> Let's have a discussion now and vote later. >> >> Regards, >> Craig >> >> Craig L Russell >> c...@apache.org >> > > Craig L Russell c...@apache.org
