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This is the "separate the art from the artist" mentality and some people can't do it as art is expression and see the art as supporting the views of the artist.
by 9283409232 2y ago
This is the "separate the art from the artist" mentality and some people can't do it as art is expression and see the art as supporting the views of the artist. You might think it is a stretch to apply this to a window manager but I see where people are coming from.
- sunshowers 2y agoYou understand it's not a binary, yeah? Most people can do the separation in some cases but not in others.
- ristos 2y agoI don't know, the problem with that mentality is that you can't just separate the art from the artist, right? unless we're talking about historical figures, on some level it's validating and enabling those people and their ideology, even if you explicitly disagree with it. I'm pretty bummed out to hear about all of this. I thought the suckless style software was pretty cool, easy to grok, minimalist. I use a lot of it. Granted, I've been planning on translating all of the minimalist C software I've been using to R7RS scheme, so maybe this just gives me more motivation to get started on porting my stack to that. Someone in an earlier thread said something like, if he avoided software written by assholes then he would have a hard time using his computer, something like that. I think that's kind of true, but there are definitely red lines when it comes to violent ideologies.