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Was surprised no one bothered to post this give how big of a reaction this story got.

Wanted to post the update and correction cause that deserves to be seen just as much. This seems like a reasonable, thoughtful handling of the issue.

I still don't really wanna use Ubuntu though 😅

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[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Whether it’s pertinent or not is irrelevant. Whether it’s useful to know is irrelevant. How they’re treated is (kinda) irrelevant.

Whatever, I still think that knowing such information in a technical forum is irrelevant and should not be asked or disclosed per se.
I will still treat the person as she deserve, with respect to the person if she is respectfull or as assholes if she is an assholes, irregarless how they choose to identify themself.

If you think it is wrong how I treat people think whatever you want, it is not my problem.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

How you treat people is a whole different subject matter. I made no judgements about that.

This discussion is entirely on a queer person calling themselves queer in their Ubuntu-something profile. The impacts that has, and the impact concealing that information has.

It's okay to be indifferent to queerness like you would be indifferent to race. My point is they should be free to express who they are.