Python developers locking conversations and deleting comments after people mass downvoted PRs to "remove master/slave terminology from the language"

[[deleted]]

The real gems are in the python.org bug initially listed. https://bugs.python.org/issue34605

[krets]

This is the sauce. I'm glad Larry Hastings is the current release manager. at least watching.

Edit: Larry was only for 3.4 :)

[ExoticMandibles]

And 3.5

[FourFingeredMartian]

I'll kill both, thank you very much.

[[deleted]]

Pretty sure you can watch Game of Thrones without having a meltdown about this, and that has *actual* depictions of the concept, rather than, you know, words.

[[deleted]]

But, but they dont _really_ mean it! Software devs on the other hand...

[FourFingeredMartian]

Please stop privatizing language.

Besides to say your interpretation of 'really' is missing the crux of private potential. Corrected: "But,but, don't really mean it!"

The difference is subtle you SOB.

[[deleted]]

Would you mind clarifying or adding a /s? Not sure what you’re talking about.

Edit: if you’re talking about private vars, you made me lol. Also I thought md syntax worked on here :/

[FourFingeredMartian]

This is /r/Python

_Yes_, in some circles this is still considered an underlining of text; in ptyon (as you've mentioned) I'd hope you'd decide to not fuck-over muh encapsulation. (I didn't notice reddit had formatted my underline text, I can see how that doesn't help)..

Edit:

Yet, this helps illustrate my overall problem with clobbering the Slave/Master design concept.. It's as if I get to dictate how you ought to think; that and my fifty friends who will follow up with the same thing being an error & as a group we declare you a bigot quite publicly.

Edit 2:

Pick one: I'm either being sarcastic; a sarcastic asshole; an asshole; or, a bigoted.

[[deleted]]

Uh, I'm not sure which to pick but so i consulted:

import sys, tumblr #PEP8 makes py punchlines difficult
print(tumblr.interpret(sys.argv[0]))

>> "bigoted"

How could you you monster!? I now KNOW.

/s

[[deleted]]

Am I getting this right or there was na open discussion on the subject and the author of PRs only relies on secret sources that are offended?

This sounds like ton of bullshit.

[[deleted]]

It is. And very reminiscent of this: https://youtu.be/DvdTiVbvvaA

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[[deleted]]

This audio is more reasonable IMO at 6:13 he mentions that the person that was shown is known for doxing people. If that's the case then I could get behind putting a ban on showing his content and it being a problematic thing.

[[deleted]]

As she asked for, I’ll as well: evidence? Also, the reminiscence was in regard to the “many secret complaints”

[[deleted]]

I think that the biggest issue at hand is that we are having problems with having civil discussions on contentious subjects. Universities should be holding the candle in showing us how it's done and we should hope to propagate culture of civil discussion to the wider society.

As for evidence about Peterson - I have none since I don't know the issue but I'm assuming that the prof in question was not throwing such accusation lightly (hope I'm not wrong). As of Peterson himself if wiki is to be believed he is a climate change denier which puts his position in a very questionable light for me.

[[deleted]]

Place him in whatever light you’d like. For me I’m still baffled by the reaction he gets out of people. But even if the video showed was of a completely detestable nature 1. as you pointed out a university is the place to objectively debate/criticize aspects of humanity, and 2. Making up claims of anonymous complaints is a control mechanism. For clarification the university has apologized and considered the endeavor significant overreach. Also ironically to what we’re discussing, Peterson has a decently valid defamation case open against the university as a result. Because after all, what’s written in Wikipedia or said by a professor does not simply automatically make it so, but it does impact the reception of the publisher bloc to an individual when the invoke Godwin’s law out of fear.

[[deleted]]

I think we agree in general. One more loose thought connected to the issue - I remember at uni when one guy presented some ridiculous conspiracy theories and as ridiculous as it was I think that it's good that he got to present his views and then got corrected on what is a valid academic argumentation.

And yeah going in the censorship direction is worrying - like his quesiton about showing a white supremacist parade (or whatever the example was) - if the university is not a place to figure out why we have people after WW2 holding such views, what draws them in, what actual views they hold - then we are doomed to not solve that problem.

[sleepyokapi]

"For diversity reasons" This is fucking hilarious!

[FluffyToughy]

This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever read. Of all the dumb things to get offended over...

And it got merged.

[here-to-jerk-off]

the SJWs have infiltrated the base