Is GitHub Racist?

http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/06/is-github-racist/

by robin_reala • 13 years ago

4 3 13 years ago

noerps• 13 years ago

No, but people may be.

DigitalSea• 13 years ago

Oh man, so not supporting language other than English characters in a Git name is racist? I stopped reading after I saw that. The thing that really gets in my grill about racism is people who make a racist situation out of a non-racist situation. There is nothing racist here, it's like going to another country and calling people racist because they don't speak your language and can only speak their own.

jgeorge• 13 years ago

Hot button inflammatory accusation. If the developers don't support non-English languages, which of the possible reasons do you think it may be?

1) Github developers aren't particularly internationalization-aware. Because, y'know, every other piece of software on the planet is completely i18n aware.

2) Github developers don't have the resources to support non-English languages because they a) may not know the language, b) may not have the ability to engage someone who does, or c) both of the above?

3) Github developers are all white Anglo-Saxon racists who hate anyone on the planet with the first bit of skin pigmentation and want to express this sheer hatred in the only way they know how: by only supporting English.

(Hint: it's not #3.)

Is GitHub Racist?

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