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> RMS has (for some reason) tens of thousands of political notes on his website ready to be cherry-picked It used to be quite okay to share your opinions, poli
by mikaeluman 6y ago
> RMS has (for some reason) tens of thousands of political notes on his website ready to be cherry-picked
It used to be quite okay to share your opinions, political or not, on your website.
It they concern anything that is of importance, some people will find it disagreeable and even offensive.
The fact that we are at a point where expressing this is somehow strange and it’s accepted that you can be subjected to cherry-picking and so should abstain from posting anything that might be considered controversial by some radical;
That’s a horrible place for our society to be in. I’m glad the competing support letter has far more supporters.
I’m tired but not surprised that we have to include politics in everything.
Make software better instead.
- josteink 6y ago> That’s a horrible place for our society to be in. This is encouraged from early on in school these days with ideas like "safe spaces" where people can be "safe" from so called "micro aggressions" (basically having their own convictions challenged, even for valid reasons). It seems like just having common disagreements is considered inappropriate now, and the more opinions you express publicly, the more "micro-agressions" you must accept that you are imposing on others. And thus obviously you are terrible person and must be cancelled. And so comes the (now traditional) SJW witch-hunt. Whoever supports these ideas really needs to be considered the enemies of a healthy democracy, and their ideas needs to be constantly and publicly challenged.