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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by goatinaboat on Friday November 08, 2019 @01:58PM (#21485486)
No such thing would happen" because the people behind the CoC were not racist

Read their tweets, many of them are openly and proudly racist, sexist and ageist.

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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by EricE on Friday November 08, 2019 @03:19PM (#21486274)
>Read their tweets, many of them are openly and proudly racist, sexist and ageist.

Are they really? Or do they just dare to hold views that have nothin to do with sexism, agism or racism but instead just violate the "proper" political orthodoxy?

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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by FireBeyond on Saturday November 09, 2019 @01:02AM (#21489913)
FreeBSD - Randi Harper. Who ran an online anti-harassment support organization:

> you fucking suck

Changed her Twitter name to "Kill All Men".

Drank coffee from mugs with things like "Male Tears" on the side.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/08/ironic-misandry-why...

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/3z2sbe/randi_harpe...

etc.

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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by goatinaboat on Saturday November 09, 2019 @03:12AM (#21490315)
“Joking” about killing all men to make men feel uncomfortable is still clearly harassment.

Especially when they don’t permit the “joking” excuses to anyone else.

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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by shpongled on Saturday November 09, 2019 @10:13AM (#21491955)
Here's my personal litmus test:

If you replace one gender with the other or one race with any other race (etc, etc) and the new sentence is offensive, then so is the previous one.

Is kill all women offensive? Then you obviously shouldn't say kill all men.

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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by FireBeyond on Saturday November 09, 2019 @12:04PM (#21492660)
Oh, I absolutely agree - my original comment was perhaps ambiguous. This was the hypocrisy of someone who actively advocated for CoCs to be introduced even as she was actively harassing people who didn't fit her world-view.
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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by goatinaboat on Friday November 08, 2019 @03:57PM (#21486659)
do they just dare to hold views that have nothin to do with sexism, agism or racism but instead just violate the "proper" political orthodoxy?

Well let’s see, what do you think about using “old”, “white” and “male” as pejoratives? No one ever seems to have violated a CoC for it.

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