God. Its so creepy casually stereotyping people by their race and gender in this manner.
Ironically it’s always from so called social justice moralists.
It reminds me of the Stephen fry quote about the church and sex.
> It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now, they will say we, with our permissive society and rude jokes, are obsessed. No. We have a healthy attitude. We like it, it’s fun, it’s jolly; because it’s a primary impulse it can be dangerous and dark and difficult. It’s a bit like food in that respect, only even more exciting. The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese, and that in erotic terms is the Catholic Church in a nutshell.
These blog authors seem to have an analogous obsession with gender and race.
Now people are, rightfully, angered about the false accusations, but the accusers use this to say "see, we said you are toxic!"
Guess we gonna have fallout from this bullshit a long time...
Someone felt attacked personally, criticized it on Twitter and now everything is going downhill...
Edit: relevant wikipedia article [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_gesture#As_a_white_power_sy...
It seems online culture is so plastic that we can quickly see a move from irony/trolling to sincere usage. How is a person not at the fronts of where hateful groups and their opponents meet supposed to navigate a battlefield of memes and conventions that see distinct transitions in cultural symbols (like a phase change almost) from benign to harmful within weeks?
On the other hand, the mentioned female developer has probably had quite a lot of such experiences with direct and indirect racism, perceived or actual, but either she kept quiet or it didn't blow up that much.
E.g. person who doesn't agree with my favorite ideology on all its points?
At least in the US there never was widespread slavery of white people because they are white, or widespread ideas of white skin color being associated with lesser intelligence, culture or whatever.
It is, however, very important not to get hung up in racist terminology. For example it only serves the racists' cause to argue who is actually black or who is actually white, or how much of each.
It's not like the average heckler on the street asks somebody where he is from, his religion, what he is doing for a living or what his ancestral gene mixture is!
If the inverse became fashionable in 10 years, the same kind of people (if not the same people) would do a 180o.
I don't know about "react-gate" yet, but I'm sure to find out in a few minutes.
It would not be appropriate to post with the title “black men in tech had a twitter meltdown” but it is at least this okay with white dudes for the same reason why it's fine to make fun of The Mountain if he can't hit a squat in the gym but it's not fine to make fun of your buddy who's trying to make a change in his life. Of course how much better The Mountain is than your buddy at lifting heavy stuff is probably a larger discrepancy than the gap between white men and and minority women's abilities to affect the course of the developer landscape but that's the mechanism.
I think they do, but most client-side JS apps are horribly designed. They load the whole bundle at once, display ads, have setTimeouts and other unnecessary things that add to the bloat.
Native apps aren't great either, I hate the Twitter and Reddit ones, they constantly fail to load stuff, block and restart.
Isn't this a good thing? Genuinely asking.
I have so many questions and hope to never have to answer any of them.
... I should have left it alone as soon as I saw the comments about capitalism being shit and intersectionalism being a real thing.
I thought the article offered an interesting argument that front end development has suffered from increasing over-engineering in the last decade, and this over-engineering can be explained by cultural factors and the influence of large corporations like Facebook.
I am a brown guy in a 3rd world country who has been using react for long enough to be an early adopter. Reading this suddenly transformed me into a 6.6ft, white skinned, blue eyed Aryan wet dream.
> The concept of "We Live In A Meritocracy" becomes firmly implanted in the community.
> We reach today, where two prominent React community leaders quit Twitter rather than deal with accusations of emerging white nationalism and machismo-fueled poor behavior.
> The popularity of React is fueled by corporate-sponsorship, a tech industry seeking validation by becoming Hard and Masculine, and aggressive Capitalist principles (validation through work, market dominance, a continuous supply of skilled Labor) that result in Things being placed before People.
This is next level satire, right? right? Or at least something generated by an AI bot fuelled by China/Russia/Ghost of USSR. And the comments below the article take the cake. I have seen better comments on threads in /b/
It does seem like a lot of the grievances in this post are about arbitrary choices by the author or the teams using React as part of their stack.
Maybe I'm not attached enough to React that I can understand the problem.
The first person misunderstood the second.
The first person started accusing a well know React dev of being a white supremacist on Twitter because of that misunderstanding.
People who care about social justice rallied to the first persons cause, saying React would protect white supremacists.
React devs didn't know anything about the accused dev being a WS, because he wasn't one.
It got all cleared up that the dev was wrongly accused and the accuser publicly apologized.
React devs got angry that people who care about social justice can run around and ruin peoples lifes with false accusations.
Uh, huh.
