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Good point, I agree it's not comparable to what has been alleged in this case. I used Linus just as an example of a very high-profile and widely beloved open s
by violini 4y ago
Good point, I agree it's not comparable to what has been alleged in this case.
I used Linus just as an example of a very high-profile and widely beloved open source leader, to contrast this relatively unknown developer.
Though, now I think on it, some of the words he used in the past on the mailing list are considered "-ism" level offensive by some people today: "dumb", "retarded", etc.
Hopefully no cancellations incoming for these historical word-mishaps.
- pca006132 4y agoReally? "dumb" and "retarded" are considered "-ism" level offensive? What about retroactive abortion and the like? Is it so easy to trigger cancellation nowadays?
- Beaver117 4y agoYes, saying the latter word on reddit will get your account permanently banned site-wide...
- tarotuser 4y agoThat is indeed true. One of my alts there (like out of 25 at the moment, subject matter per acct) got permabanned sitewide for calling into question the business name and property ownership for a mental health nonprofit that has "ARC" in its name. The "ARC" acronym stands for 'Association for Retarded Citizens', back when "retarded" was a clinical definition. It's now defunct. But those names still live on in property deeds and corporation names. https://thearc.org/about-us/history/ https://thearc.org/about-us/history/ has the history of this name. But Reddit.. egads, I have no clue what they're trying to accomplish. Maybe they're trying to clean themselves up from anything that even smells bad. If you want to speak about 'questionable topics', you have to use onomatopoeia to even talk about it (like, wee-tod-did , seggsual, unalive). I'm personally thinking of just abandoning reddit over their slow-boiling the frog, if you will.