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Interesting, but not convinced of its impartiality. There's a strange attempt here to link labour union organising to social activism, which is incorrect and ah
by ajb 2y ago
Interesting, but not convinced of its impartiality. There's a strange attempt here to link labour union organising to social activism, which is incorrect and ahistorical. And also irrelevant to nix, which is a community rather than an employer.
Individual union organisers might also be social activists, but effective union organisers know that they need to a appeal to all employees regardless of their politics. And historically unions have been just as socially unreconstructed as companies, and subject to the same process of social activists pushing for their reform.
- imp0cat 2y agoThere are no impartial reporters, you gotta take it all in and decide for yourself.
- Eisenstein 2y agoWhen a person is deeply involved with something that turned into a conflict and then they write their history of it, as is the case with the link above, then I would say that framing them as a 'reporter' is not accurate.
- srid 2y agoOut of curiosity - what makes you think that the author of the link above, Chris McDonough (incidentally an author of the Pyramid Python web framework), is "deeply involved" with the NixOS conflict?
- Eisenstein 2y agoIt is a firsthand account of someone in the community. They referenced no sources and gave a description of events based entirely on memory. They claimed their own involvement and interest in the outcomes.
- imp0cat 2y agoRight, but I don't see a better way. Do you think an outsider (ie. an impartial person) be able to provide a better summary? Even as outsider has to get his info somehow, usually by interviewing those involved and then filtering stuff.
- Eisenstein 2y agoIf the person is involved in a situation and recounts a history from their perspective it is not reporting. It doesn't matter whether you think they did a good job or not. A combatant in a war writing their evaluation of it afterwards is not 'reporting' and neither is what he did.
- imp0cat 2y agoSo now we're comparing the NixOS community to a warzone? Is it really that bad?
- Eisenstein 2y agoAn analogy is not a literal comparison between two things. It is a way to describe something by pointing out relationships between things and comparing the relationships. It does not literally compare NixOS with a warzone.
- anon291 2y ago> Individual union organisers might also be social activists, but effective union organisers know that they need to a appeal to all employees regardless of their politics One need only look at labor's reaction to the Teamster's president's speech at the RNC to realize that this is clearly not the case.