Existence? Because somebody used a wrong pronoun?

Don’t think we should be scared of the word “political” or “ideology”.

Ok, you keep saying that but never explain why/how. Like, why refuse such a small change so aggressively?

I'm surprised this got any kind of attention.

Here's the turn of events from my perspective:

1. Someone submits a 1-line PR changing the gender used in a code comment
2. PR rejected on the grounds that the change is "politically motivated"
3. Submitter got mad, and proposed removing the rule against "politically motivated" changes, calling it "white supremacist," which is closed
4. Someone wrote a blog post about it

Here's my analysis:

1. Stupid change - don't make PRs that simply correct an irrelevant typo in a comment somewhere; some people do this to put stuff on a resume (look at how much FOSS work I do!), and it just wastes everyone's time
2. Stupid response - it should've been rejected because it's a useless change, not because it's "politically motivated"
3. Stupid proposal - do you really want to waste a bunch of time fighting over wording in a comment? Because that's the kind of crap you get without a rule like this.
4. This is all about an irrelevant change to a comment? Why is this getting so much attention?

"We don't accept ideologically motivated changes" = White supremacist language... Yeah, sounds about like what I expected...

Thank you for sharing.