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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:
洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:
@hongminhee@hollo.social  ·  activity timestamp 13 hours ago

Just had someone leave feedback on my F/OSS project saying “maybe that's fine if a product is focused on your Chinese community.”

I'm Korean. Every single piece of documentation is in English. There's nothing in Chinese anywhere in the project.

This kind of microaggression is exhausting. As a non-white maintainer, you deal with these assumptions constantly—people who feel entitled to your labor while casually othering you based on your name.

It chips away at your motivation. It makes you wonder why you bother.

https://github.com/dahlia/optique/issues/59#issuecomment-3678606022

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Em 🤓🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦
Em 🤓🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦
@emma@mathstodon.xyz replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@hongminhee I'm sorry you had to (very gracefully) deal with that idiot. I took a look at their resume and, yeah, a couple of red flags right there.

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IHateFireworks
IHateFireworks
@ProcessParsnip@mastodon.ie replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@hongminhee ugh, I'm sorry.

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Nathan 🌻
Nathan 🌻
@natpbs@mathstodon.xyz replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@hongminhee what a cool project! sorry you had to read that :/

In general, I find it pretty distasteful to expect to be "win over" by a project, as if they're doing you a favour by considering using the code you worked on and freely provided. (This is very different from saying 'this could be more convenient to me and probably others' btw). The racism only makes it worse.

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David Brownman
David Brownman
@xavdid@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@hongminhee you are extraordinarily patient with him! I'm not sure I'd have bothered

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Rastagong
Rastagong
@lrwerther@mastodon.gamedev.place replied  ·  activity timestamp 13 hours ago

@hongminhee This is so unacceptable and unneeded, I'm so sorry you had to deal with that.

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:
洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:
@hongminhee@hollo.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 13 hours ago

@lrwerther Thank you. I appreciate the solidarity.

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Stefan Bohacek
Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 13 hours ago

@hongminhee Pretty awful, sorry you have to deal with that!

Kudos on how well you handled it!

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:
洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:
@hongminhee@hollo.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 13 hours ago

@stefan Thanks, I appreciate the support. It's one of those things you never quite get used to.

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Kagami is they/them 🏳️‍⚧️
Kagami is they/them 🏳️‍⚧️
@krosylight@fosstodon.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 13 hours ago

@hongminhee And like as if Chinese devs have some fundamental differences than "a programmer out of this community" 🤣

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