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The FSF isn't a different culture though, not in the sense that you're talking about. They live in the exact same culture as the people around them. It's alien
by mwfunk 11y ago
The FSF isn't a different culture though, not in the sense that you're talking about. They live in the exact same culture as the people around them.
It's alienating because asking people reasonable questions and getting lectured about not phrasing the questions using their approved terminology* instead of getting a reasonable answer to those reasonable questions is rather alienating.
* And their terminology is based on what always seemed like an intentional strategy of attaching very specific and nonintuitive definitions to commonly used words with dozens of dictionary definitions already. So if anyone has given up their privilege to lecture people about misusing terminology, it's them, because they created the confusion in the first place by overloading common terms instead of creating new terms to represent their (very unique and complicated) ideals.
- zxcvcxz 11y agoAh, see now you're being really disrespectful by denying that their culture even exists. Is America all one culture too? No, sub-cultures exist and I think that's fine.