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@ramin_hal9001@emacs.ch I'm curios.

Our language is imperfect. You can change/improve it, but it requires time. During the transition, it is also a matter of personal style.

Accusing someone to be "probably" racist, only because he does not agree with some new form of written style, is rather extreme. I'm scared more from you than Andreas Kling, because you are giving me vibes of the "Reign of Terror" during the French Revolution.

This is one of the refused pull-requests github.com/SerenityOS/serenity

The "they" makes the sentence more ambiguous because without technical knowledge it can be interpreted as "the `wheel` group will no longer be able to run `/bin/su`.

So using "they" everywhere is not always a good solution, and after you accept one modification, you had to change documentation in all places, if you want to be coherent. So, it is not a single fix, but a "political decision".

Changing the language is a political action, but also refusing to adopt the new style is a political decision. But, it is more normal sticking to actual conventions, than adopting new ones. The usual solution is creating a new fashion, and waiting that the people following old fashions will naturally change or die. But not "killing" them!

You can fork the project, and use your conventions in your new community, but accusing the other to be a "racist" and to not deserve money for a project he created, only because he sticks to old and usual conventions, is too much extreme.

@louis@emacs.ch

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