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Cancel culture at it again. They could've told him to knock it off and that other people are on the other end of email privately, at least. Ban everyone and cre
by forkexec 7y ago
Cancel culture at it again. They could've told him to knock it off and that other people are on the other end of email privately, at least. Ban everyone and create a useless safe space where nothing happens.
- Tomte 7y agoHe has been told that many, many times, over the course of years. The problem isn't that nobody told ESR to knock it off, the problem is that ESR believes this style is perfectly okay and there's no reason to change.
- forkexec 7y agoOkay. Thank you for elucidating. Sigh. Perhaps he needs a different forum/community for misfits where necessary roughness is permitted and similar folks can violently agree or disagree in their own way.
- Tomte 7y agoI don't think you understand the extent of the problem. He regularly argues things like that blacks have too low an IQ to be taught things like correct handling of weapons, he posits the existence of honey traps, where activist women try to seduce him and other leading Open Source figures, in order to accuse them of sex crimes. It goes on and on. "Roughness" or being a "misfit" is not how I would characterize the problem. I'm sure he knows how to admin his own mailing list with other people like him. But I wouldn't expect any mainstream project or club to tolerate garbage like that indefinitely.