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is Red Hat themselves caving to the mob or have they been internally compromised by totalitarian activists?
by undefined1 6y ago
is Red Hat themselves caving to the mob or have they been internally compromised by totalitarian activists?
- betwixthewires 6y agoProbably both. This ideological cancer has been metastasizing in software development for over a decade.
- __blockcipher__ 6y agoMuch more the latter. It’s not really “caving” because this is what top brass actively wants. The political commentator Dave Smith has a great point where he views “wokism” as essentially a corporate plot. Post-2008 we had hordes of angry people occupying wall street, and however ignorant the footsoldiers may have been of basic economics they left a real mark. Fast forward ten years later and the corporations, big banks, and the CIA et al have all embraced woke identity politics and here we are arguing over the usage of the singular they and trying to decide if Aunt Jemima is racist or not. Viewed through that lens, wokism is the perfect performative ritual with which to placate the masses. And the beauty is it works on both sides. The left focuses on being woke instead of opposing the wars (both foreign and domestic) and the national “security” apparatus, and the right is busy fighting against the woke while they’re banned from going to church (COVID) and while their gun rights are gradually whittled away. Reality is obviously not that simple but there’s a real kernel of truth there.
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y agoI believe there could be some truth in this. Historically the left was the leading force fighting for workers rights. These days the focus seems totally on racial and sexual identity.