Where in the world is the “severe discrimination” and prejudice in that comment? You’re knee-jerk character charging without addressing the main points.
This user stalked me from a previous comment chain. Essentially they are bought into critical theory and I'm bought into systems theory so we're talking past each other.
It's kind of amusing given we're presumably after the same thing (reducing power differentials) but by different means.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines, including personal attacks and ideological flamewar, and ignoring our many requests to stop. Not cool.
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then consider me called out. For what it's worth, I don't think you are being particularly pleasant either. That's just disliking each other, and I'm OK with that.
> For example, you made a recent comment talking about how almost all software developers are horrible at their jobs and that a small set of gatekeeper senior engineers should guard all code review.
For what it's worth it was something of an ironic joke related to the idea that "half of all people are below average at X", but also pointing at the idea that the industry gets better as the individuals who make it up get better at what they do.
I support the idea that people who are better at a job should help to educate others. I try to humble myself to better engineers than myself.
you're allowed to be biased against sets of ideas. I hold no ill will against leftists and as I've already said, I agree with most of the problems they identify, but I am pointing out a logical issue that I have noticed commonly occurs within the group of people who hold these ideas. I could be totally off-base, I'm not arrogant enough to say that I know the truth for certain - I'm expressing a belief, in sincerity and with positive intent.
I don't think we have anything else to talk about. You don't like the way I think and talk - I accept and am OK with that, we don't have to like each other.
