Next month is gonna be rough

Christmas is no longer a holiday that honors the Christian god, it's a holiday that honors the god of capitalism, money.

And spawned an even longer shit fit.

Some people just want to be offended and we should simply let them.

What religious symbol? Saint Nicholas had nothing to do with the fat guy dressed in red that coca cola made up. The hat is fine goddammit

Christmas is religion yes, but Santa doesn't really have anything to do with religion other than being on Christmas right?

Wait till they see the vlc logo during christmas ...

What's more infuriating is that they immediately gave in and removed it without any discussion

If anything modern day santa is more of an invention of Coca-Cola than Christianity or Paganism.

It's always baffling how people can define something as unacceptable. Says who? You? Who are you to just make that decision so unilaterally?

You can have your opinion, but it's just that.

This is nothing new, people expect religion not to be part of the "professional" environment. Dunno if VS code applies.

At the office (big corp) they don't call it the "Christmas Party", it's "the holiday party". They put lights and stuff up but no more Christmas trees/stars etc.. not everyone celebrates christmas so that's fine by me. If Microsoft wants to put a little santa hat on their product that's fine by me too. If I was using some service based in Mexico and they put a little hat on a product for cinco de mayo i wouldn't care. Christmas has other implications so it might be different, dunno

omg this is the person who deleted all their files on accident lol

edit: nevermind

Santa is pagan, they put that dude on cereal boxes.

Guess loosing his project didn't deter him from using vscode.

I hope they never walk past a church…

Sing along kids! Mr. Ghosty the Christmas troll...

The 'ghost' of Christmas past.

The article they share in the issue to explain why Christmas is so offensive is absolutely wild. To quote:

Imagine that between 1933-45, the Nazi regime celebrated Adolf Hitler’s birthday – April 20 – as a holiday. Imagine that they named the day, “Hitlerday,” and observed the day with feasting, drunkenness, gift-giving, and various pagan practices.

https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/51928?lang=bi

They should have replaced it with a yule goat mask:

https://www.blocket.se/annons/stockholm/julbocksmask_i_halm/1208094235

Hahahahahahaha

Did they make it their top priority though!?

It's true that Christians have killed more people and commited more genocides, and are obsessed with putting their religion in everything... I think I'm on the side of this guy tbh

I don’t think an actual Jew would equate a religious symbol with a swastika

But I do agree that religious imagery should never be in public

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=53998

Is this guy a troll? Same dude that allegedly deleted all their work with vs code discard button

I just hope the very level headed decision by Microsoft to remove the imagery is going to be mistaken for their tacit approval of the link that dude shared.

It makes sense Microsoft did the thing and removed it, the linked article is … political af

Is this the same guy that two years earlier said VSCode lost him 5000 files when he did a git checkout?

Yes, it's the same dumbass: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/32405 Apparently he's using it despite this issue of his own making.

Wow I didn't expect so many religious people on Lemmy. Fuck christmas and every religious holiday. No special treatment for pale skins or anybody else. People are so indoctrinated into these rituals that they think it's "normal". Keep that bullshit out of my code please.