When mentioning the problem of Ruby/Rails subreddit members behaving in anti-MINASWAN ways (anti Matz Is Nice And So We Are Nice), some devs give ignorant selfish lame excuses like "Nobody forced you to join those groups!". This is exactly like saying to someone who got poisoned at a restaurant "Nobody forced you to go to that restaurant!", selfishly allowing other people to get poisoned there daily and even die regularly without caring to report the problem and resolve it for the benefit of everyone. Newsflash! If a restaurant does not meet health standards, it must not be open! You cannot allow people there to profit at the expense of other people who visit the restaurant without offering them healthy food and respectful treatment.
The idea of "Nobody forced you to go there" is misapplied here. It does apply if someone is complaining that "Ruby on Rails libraries do not seem to offer the performance characteristics of C/C++". In that case, those devs can go and join a C/C++ subreddit or the subreddits of other more performant statically typed programming languages instead, assuming they received fully respectful non-discriminatory treatment. But, the idea of "Nobody forced you to go there" does NOT apply when basic things like respect and niceness aren't provided equally to everyone, which is a literal form of discrimination!
In fact, Reddit mods are total hypocrites because they do claim to provide a "safe environment" except they ironically do it with a double-standard discriminatory way by allowing some people who are mean, lazy, and literal haters of Ruby to "feel safe" while making others who are nice, hard-working, and passionate about using Ruby feel unsafe.
Many Ruby on Rails devs are passive with regards to addressing this covert discrimination because they are indirect benefactors of it. When I hear of discrimination, I don't stay silent. I show concern. I listen. I ask if there is a way to help. In fact, there are Ruby on Rails devs that do those things with a double-standard by ironically discriminating against whoever they lend support to for "discrimination" instead of being against all discrimination for everyone equally.
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