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Re:Linux foundation bans person for tone-policing by rvz on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @03:00PM (#21528787)
Here we go again. This is what happens when you enforce a policy such as a CoC and if one person attempts to step out of line they are arrested on the suspicion of wrong-think. If that wasn't insult to injury then why not cancel him too because red MAGA hat == bad.

Its interesting to see that they are continuing this politically-correct attitude with silly purity tests to throw dirt at people like Charles Wood but all for the double-standards for Kim to throw racial insults and gets away with it unscathed.

Ladies and gentlemen and people of all genders, this is hypocrisy at its finest.

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Re:Linux foundation bans person for tone-policing by CrackerNews on Thursday November 14, 2019 @09:51AM (#21535765)
They don't see it as hypocrisy because they mistake race/gender for class status. It is essentially "reverse racism" and they have to "punch up" against racism. It's okay to cancel a white guy because he's their version of a "bourgeois" while people of color are their version of a "proletariat."

I don't agree with this assessment by the way. It's just how these people think. To me, it feels like playing musical chairs within a fundamentally broken society and economic system that disregards social justice for profit.

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