Santa Hat Icon in vs. Code Creates 'SantaGate,' Locks Down Repository

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4 points·GordonS··7 comments

Microsoft handled this perfectly by swapping out the santa icon with a snowflake which is an apt description of the complaintant.

The original complaint from GitHub:

> The Santa Hat on vscode insiders and pushing of religion is very offensive to me, 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. Please remove it immediately and make it your top priority. To me this is almost equally offensive as a swastika

I admittedly don't know much about Judaism, but this surprised me a great deal. Is this reaction to very typical from followers of Judaism?

Ironically, the name of the person reporting the issue is "Christian".

That isn’t irony. It’s a coincidence.

Irony is when a persons actions result in the opposite of what they were trying to achieve: ie “I rewrote the <software> to fix all the bugs, but now it’s more buggy than before”.

My dictionary includes that, as well as "a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result." which would be the definition pertaining to my comment, as I didn't expect that name as it was contrary to the authors comments, and I found it amusing as a result.

... You somehow assume someone called Christian must be a Christian?

Really?

That isn't what I said. I said I found the contrast amusing at face value, which doesn't mean I assumed anything about the person.

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