Sidebar icons are offensive to me in many ways.

[lukelex]

WTF am I talking about?

• Number 13 is often used to refer to the Texas Aryan Circle prison gang. Please make it impossible to write this number in the editor. Refer to: https://www.adl.org/hate-symbols for more information.
• Magnifier icon alludes to the Windows magnifier app used as a cheat mechanism in Counter Strike to improve your in game Field Of View. As Microsoft's values include Corporate Social Responsibility we should not support irresponsible gaming.
• Source Control Symbol icon is a mockery of all the slaves that got whipped by Scourges. Refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scourge for more info (and more offensive images).
• Bug icon incites violence against animals by having the X marked on its back, often used as for target practicing.
• Building blocks icon alludes to all the Pyramids that were built using slave work. As a person with African Lineage, I find this offensive.
• Cogwheel icon I often used as the symbol of Capitalism and we all know it's EVIL. Refer to Erich Fromm: Man is a cog in the vast economic machine.

Info

• VSCode Version: 1.41.1-1
• OS Version: Manjaro 18.1.5

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install latest arch build.

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

[lukelex]

I thought you might be interested to know the origin of the meme you're referencing. The "triggered"/"offended" meme is a response to trigger warnings in university courses, but a lot of people don't know the origin of those.

A number of conditions (most often post-traumatic or acute stress disorder) can make it so that reminders of a past trauma activate a severe neurological fight-or-flight state. Not discomfort, but a 100% convincing, brain-level understanding that the traumatic past experience is happening, again, right this instant.

Some university professors realized that (1) an extremely high percentage of people have experienced trauma (in a lecture of 300, it'll be ~30 on average), often connected closely to domestic violence, suicide, or sexual abuse or related issues and (2) studying such content can still be valuable. So, they decided to give everyone a heads-up when covering content that could trigger a flashback (which, again, is a neurological state in which a person's brain trauma causes their neurons and synapses to believe, at a physical level, that the traumatic event is happening again).

Thank you for history lesson.

Now for the maintainers, I'd like my concerns to be addressed.

With love, Myself

[egamma]

/duplicate #79130

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