Re:Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Fre...
by MauranKilom on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @08:36PM
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> Nobody's getting 'cancelled' for bad social skills.
People have been cancelled for less.
Here's a guy facing a closed door tribunal for jokingly saying in a keynote that someone was wrong on technical points:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24926214
Here is someone getting character-assassinated because... We don't know why. This guy made others uncomfortable, or so the organizers said. Other examples of similar stories in there too:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12422420
The discussion of whether what RMS has done in the past (and still does? I don't know? Did he repent?) crosses a line in the sand that you (and others) see between bad social skills and actual harassment needs more nuance than "people don't get cancelled for the wrong reasons".
It's incredibly troubling. It shows that a hell of a lot of men will excuse incredibly shitty behaviour, because they think 'they're next'.
Not unless they're also being incredibly shitty. Nobody's getting 'cancelled' for bad social skills.
I am pleasantly surprised by the number of people speaking out against harassment these days. The open letter has a lot of signatories, many prominent figures. Sadly, of course, the open letter is necessary.