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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by DoreenMichele on Sunday September 16, 2018 @06:37PM (#18001636)
Or perhaps an acknowledgement that people are imperfect and the world is imperfect and, if you want to accomplish things, x all-too-common defect is preferable to y all-too-common defect.
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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by komali2 on Sunday September 16, 2018 @07:09PM (#18001791)
I disagree that that level of asshole behavior is all-too-common. I've never encountered anybody like Linus professionally and if I did I simply wouldn't work with/for/over them.
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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by DoreenMichele on Sunday September 16, 2018 @07:12PM (#18001800)
Well, that looks to me like moving the goal posts. Saying "that level of asshole behavior" isn't common is fundamentally different from what I said.
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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by icelancer on Sunday September 16, 2018 @08:15PM (#18002135)
Fortunately, plenty of other people managed to do so.
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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by grzm on Sunday September 16, 2018 @06:44PM (#18001678)
In other contexts, perhaps. I don’t read the comment I initially replied to as supporting that interpretation, even reading charitably. They explicitly separate people into (primarily) two groups: "I'll take an asshole over a pushover any day, and most of us are pushovers."
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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by DoreenMichele on Sunday September 16, 2018 @06:46PM (#18001688)
Well, that's exactly what I see in the comment in question.
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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by staticassertion on Sunday September 16, 2018 @07:05PM (#18001775)
They very clearly are setting up a false dichotomy. They support one side by stating that it is preferable to the other (when there are no sides to begin with).

You have to be willfully ignorant to read it otherwise.

As blatant support of this,

"People give up ability to say certain things in the name of inclusion, and then lose ability to think those things in the first place."

This is a clear testament that there are two sides and you must 'give up' something (ie: become a pushover) to not be an asshole.

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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by DoreenMichele on Sunday September 16, 2018 @07:08PM (#18001788)
You have to be willfully ignorant to read it otherwise.

This is a personal insult. Ironic given what you are arguing "for" in theory.

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