Linux developers threaten to pull “kill switch”

Re:Linux developers threaten to pull “kill switch” by IvyMike on Monday September 24, 2018 @05:08PM (#18061484)

Here's a piece from ESR where he describes an unnamed race. Let me say upfront that I guess I'm one of the terrible anti-racists he warns you about in this very piece..

> One was: their skin color looks fecal. The other was: their bone structure doesn’t look human. And they’re just off-reference enough to be much more creepy than if they looked less like people, like bad CGI or shambling undead in a B movie. When I paid close enough attention, these were the three basic data under the revulsion; my hindbrain thought it was surrounded by alien shit zombies.

The overall piece's conclusion is "I, ESR, am so enlightened that that I managed to overcome this perception". http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5001

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Re:Linux developers threaten to pull “kill switch” by NoIWont on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @03:11PM (#18069467)

Lol and the title of the piece is "Preventing visceral racism", its main thesis is about an experience that freaked him out and about how racism starts in groups. Your quote is cherry picked from where he is describing his freaked reaction.

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