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601 points z303 | 6 comments | 02 Nov 25 11:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.057s | source | bottom
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maxlin ◴[12 Nov 25 06:54 UTC] No.45897100[source]▶
Stickers themselves can be fun and quirky, but I for the life of me can't figure out why people would put such extremely divisive and workplace-unnecessary messaging on their MAIN WORK DEVICE as many of these have.

The kind of lack to integrate to a team having your pride flags, literal death threats to perceived enemies, furries, loli anime, etc on a thing you intend to bring to the workplace to do all your work on isn't good for your career and sure as hell won't not be noticed by people whose responsibility is to judge risk and liabilities for example.

Tech stacks, not party flags.

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1. marcosscriven ◴[12 Nov 25 09:25 UTC] No.45898099[source]▶
I’m struggling to understand how you’ve put pride flags and death threats in the same category of “extremely divisive”.

I see others have asked the same question, but you don’t seem to have the courage to respond.

What’s divisive about a pride flag?

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2. heavensteeth ◴[12 Nov 25 11:03 UTC] No.45898708[source]▶
I struggle to believe you don't understand what they mean. There is many a homophobe in the world. GP isn't saying homophobia is good, simply that espousing a pro-LGBT viewpoint may upset people. Maybe they deserve to be upset, but that doesn't change that it may become your problem.
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3. nicbou ◴[12 Nov 25 11:43 UTC] No.45898971[source]▶
I think that normalising LGBT and its symbols was a necessary step towards acceptance. If it's still a controversial idea to some, it's on them.
4. marcosscriven ◴[12 Nov 25 11:52 UTC] No.45899026[source]▶
In the same breath/sentence as “death threats”? You think that’s remotely the same?
5. rsynnott ◴[12 Nov 25 13:07 UTC] No.45899669[source]▶
> simply that espousing a pro-LGBT viewpoint may upset people.

Y'know, I'm pretty much fine with upsetting bigots. I'd assume that people inclined to be upset by a scary pride flag are also upset by my _existence_, so, y'know, I don't see a strong reason to moderate my stickers to protect the delicate feelings of idiots. If they're a homophobe they'll have a problem with me _anyway_.

6. boomlinde ◴[12 Nov 25 15:55 UTC] No.45901702[source]▶
People can become upset for a great variety of reasons. I think it's better to accept to some extent that it happens than to design your life around not upsetting anyone.