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People need to stop being so damn lazy. Seriously - Rosa Parks didn't start a bus company when she did not like the rules on the existing bus. MLK didn't start
by dvdhnt 9y ago
People need to stop being so damn lazy. Seriously - Rosa Parks didn't start a bus company when she did not like the rules on the existing bus. MLK didn't start a new religion or form a separate government to avoid oppression of existing ones. Susan B. Anthony didn't hold her own elections when she couldn't vote in official ones. They stood their ground, walked in the shadow of the valley of death, stared down the dragon, ventured into the bear's cave and put in the work and sacrifice to change the system. A lot of people are so spoiled and hardship-adverse that they can't be bothered to do what needs to be done to facilitate actual change in an existing ecosystem. Instead, they just take their ball and go home - or hide behind "safe-spaces". Like dude, the world isn't safe and you can't sterilize it by fussing and complaining until you've forced your sensibilities onto everyone you disagree with.
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- drostie 9y agoResigning committee positions at Node.js and forking the project is just about the only "non-lazy" option in open source. Like, the closest thing we have to a sit-in is a DDoS and while that might be suitable for Anonymous's hacktivism it's not very suitable for open-source contributors who feel left out at inconsistent application of Codes of Conduct to committee-members versus occasional-contributors.