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No but it does make you an asshole, and you drove an open source maintainer to quit.

Software is like 10% code, and 90% soft skills. You need to work on that.

And that case he drove out a racist asshole. He did the good deed

The racist asshole is the author of the article who drove out the maintainer. (Just look at his rant about "Japanese verbosity".)

He is just stating a fact. If this looks like racism to you then I am afraid it's not him who's racist.

He quotes three excerpts from an email exchange in Japanese followed by his "translation" where he leaves out much of the explanation and even the parts where they quote each other so he can demonstrate his claim that in Japanese "you have to say much more than just what is actually necessary."

Does that make it a fact? I don't think so, because I disagree that the explanations he cut out were actually unnecessary.

Pointing out idiosyncrasies about a language is not racism. I didn't even complained about the verbosity, merely pointed it out.

Moreover, if I didn't like the language why do you think I learned it?

Maybe you should edit your post to have actual translations then.

The comments are open. Any translator willing to help would be more than welcome.

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