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The Coddling of the Professional Mind

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"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling." – Thomas Sowell I'm not one to miss an important milestone, so let me draw your attention to a shift in norms that's taking place in the Ruby open source community: it's now no longer expected to be tolerant of views that differ. This ought to be a remarkable change: previously, a common refrain was that "in order to be tolerant, we cannot tolerate intolerance." This was the rationale for excluding certain people, under the guise of inclusivity. Well, that line of reasoning is now on its way out, and intolerance is now openly advocated for, with lots of heart emoji to boot. The Anatomy of Man - Da Vinci (1513) Code of Misconduct Source for this is a series of changes to the Ruby Code of Conduct, which subtly tweak the language.…

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