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if a nazi and an $acceptable_political_alignment independently write programs that accomplish the exact same task, there is no technical basis to claim that one program is accomplishes the task more effectively than the other because of the character of the author. there are a lot of ways to approach a code review, but starting with "i don't agree with your politics, so i'm going to assume you don't know how to write code either" is very unprofessional.

note: i'm not defending whatever politics the gitgud people have. i'm objecting to the idea that you can base a technical critique on non-technical details. let the software or the math or whatever stand on its own. identity politics are really stupid. i really don't care who is behind the code as long as i can read the source and use it to get my work done.



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