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So basically she implies he is a racist? Is not this even worse abuse than initial Linus rant?

• JulianMorrison 13y ago
  1. I didn't find/read Sarah's up thread message. But the snippet implies somebody is (pick one of) sexist/racist/etc. Not necessarily Linus. 2. Accusing someone of sexism, racism, etc, is not "abuse". It is never an insult. If you get accused of it, consider being less sexist/racist/etc rather than taking offense.
  • qwerta 13y ago
    I read the email thread. Sarah asks to be polite on mailing list, because there is no feedback, and author can not know how it was taken. Latter she talks about karate and beating opponent when he is down. There is really nothing about sexism/racism in there.
  • nknighthb 13y ago
    Even if you had, you would still have been taking things wildly out of context. You are peeking into a subset of a single day in a virtual "office". The conversation you're seeing snippets of is against a backdrop of more than two decades of that office's operation and social interactions you obviously have not observed. Linus swears a lot (compared to an American), and sometimes blows up at maintainers who do stupid things. That's what this is about. Not racism, sexism, or any other form of oppression you might want it to be about. When you walk in on a conversation and hear "I keep her in a cage", they might be talking about their pet rabbit, not their wife.