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Discussion on: Sexism, Racism, Toxic Positivity, and TailwindCSS

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Valeria

I haven't had a project where I considered TailwindCSS or Angular. Was it because they are bad? Not really, I've never tried it long enough to decide. There was a time I disliked Typescript, now it's the first dependency to install. There's a way I like my code organised and there are setups that would make me never ever contribute to a repository using it.

Having said that, it's important to differentiate between the code and the coder persona. We are all different, have different opinions on tech stack and everything else. Replace one framework with another and share a "before/after" article is a good way to promote favourite tech. Write opinionated "One Vs Another" is probably not.

I don't know much about tech bulling as my tech community is purposely limited to dev.to and work, but I can imagine that the more people are in the same room, the bigger the chances that some of them are hazardous.

I hope I'll be saying something obvious: skin colour, shape of genitals or sexual preferences should not have any effect at all on coding style, tech choices or anything else.

As well as anybody can get offended by lack of recognition for their work (with or without grounds), or give in to their temper and spread it all over the internet.

This eternal fight of "us" versus "them" (whoever the groups are) have no winners, but a lot of collateral damage. Can we just agree that we are all wrong and have a lot to work on?

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Cher

Bullying happens here, too, but the moderators are pretty great and hopping on and dealing with it, which discourages and often stops the pile on.

As for the rest, no, a lot of people can't get loudly, abrasively offended by the reactions to their work. Marginalized folks do not fall upward, they get erased. But yes, we all have a lot to work on. And that's what we're talking about here.

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