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There was a huge dust-up in the IT community this week after Microsoft caved to a developer who complained about a festive Santa hat embedded in the code, saying the "religious" symbol was "offensive."

The drama played out on GitHub, the leading open-source code repository, which hosts Microsoft's open-source projects, including the popular developer tool VSCode.

Earlier this week, a user named Christian-Schiffer opened an "issue" on the platform complaining that someone at Microsoft had inserted an " Easter egg" into the code, displaying a Santa hat to users. "Santa Hat on vscode insiders and pushing of religion is very offensive to me," he wrote in the subject line.
"Additionally xmas has cost millions of Jews their lives over the centuries, yet even if that was not the case, pushing religious symbols as part of a product update is completely unacceptable," he went on to say. "Please remove it immediately and make it your top priority. To me this is almost equally offensive as a swastika."

Yeah, right. Exactly like a swastika. I mean, who doesn't remember the jackbooted Santas storming the Warsaw Ghetto?
Let's take a moment, shall we, to appreciate the irony, not to mention the cognitive dissonance and hubris, of a user with the name "Christian" complaining about a Santa hat as a "religious  symbol." (We'll get back to him in a moment.)
Christian-Schiffer included a screenshot of the itty bitty Santa hat that had offended his fragile sensibilities.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/santagate-microsoft-removes-santa-hat-icon-after-a-single-user-complained-it-was-pushing-religion/
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It doesn't surprise me in the least.  Lot of evil has evolved from Microsoft and its money.
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It doesn't surprise me in the least.  Lot of evil has evolved from Microsoft and its money.

Without "demand" for the products, there would be no Microsoft.

Your fellow humans buy and use the hardware and software.

Blame them.

FYI MS founder Bill & Mrs.Gates,have pledged to give away most of their money, for "Good Works."

How very Christian of them.

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There appears to be a species of modern psychosis characterized by a reflexive fear and intolerance of religion, accompanied by an irrational negative response to religious symbols even if - especially if - they are not truly religious symbols, and an overwhelming feeling of being oppressed, threatened and offended by anonymous others as a mere consequence of their personally-kept faith.

Do psychiatrists yet have a term for this syndrome?  :shrug:
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Why not try to see the good, in things?

Explain the good in demanding that Santa's hat be removed because the tender sensitivities of one snowflake were pretend offended.
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Without "demand" for the products, there would be no Microsoft.

Your fellow humans buy and use the hardware and software.

Blame them.

FYI MS founder Bill & Mrs.Gates,have pledged to give away most of their money, for "Good Works."

How very Christian of them.

Why not try to see the good, in things?

I'm fully aware that they give away a huge chunk of their money.  In a nutshell they are globalists and they contribute to foundations such as the Clinton Foundation.  If indeed they give away most of their money as you stated they wouldn't be worth over $100 Billion dollars.
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