[PH95VuimJjqBqy]

> That's not even the worse part.

I was mentally and physically abused as a child by my stepfather.

If, in the middle of him choking me unconscious someone had given me the choice between "lots of people tell him he's horrible" and "someone gets him off of me", which do you think I would choose?

Do you think those who are disadvantaged due to their race would rather you worry about helping them get on their feet or not hiring someone for not wanting to name a branch "main".

You add to the hurt of this world in the name of victims who would rather you do something more useful. This is about you, not about them.

[thereare5lights]

This is a non sequitur strawman.

> You add to the hurt of this world in the name of victims who would rather you do something more useful.

Wrong. Maybe try talking to people that don't want that kind of verbiage instead of making bad assumptions. Removing terminology associated with slavery has high support among those that actually were descendants of slaves.

> This is about you, not about them.

As such, this sounds like projection.

[PH95VuimJjqBqy]

My favorite part about this response isn't the "non sequitur strawman", although that's amazing in and of itself.

It's the assumption that I'm not a descendant of a slave and have no insight based purely on a post in which no mention of ancestry or race happened.

It's like the old meme about tying a buttered piece of toast to a cat, they spin in the air indefinitely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttered_cat_paradox

Am I hire-able? I aint white, so presumably you SHOULD hire me to help with racism. yet I rename my main branch to master on all personal projects.

So the question becomes, do the above posters hire me or not? Presumably no since I have the wrong opinion but if they refuse to hire me they're furthering racial inequities so then presumably yes.

Of course, this paradox goes away the second you acknowledge both are stupid reasons to hire or fire anyone.

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Here's the real problem with the other posters.

A complete and utter lack of respect for the effects of their decisions on the lives of other people.

It's why I'm such a fan of the following C.S Lewis quote

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/lewis...

> Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.