Re:A Critique of the Open Letter Calling for the Removal of RMS
by krapp on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @07:08PM
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>Some people advocating for arresting someone for something they did, even if it is way too crazy is quite different than tools that enable discrimination based on an opinion.
It isn't different at all. Both are forms of discrimination based on an opinion. What Molly De Blanc "did" was express an opinion. On the one hand, you have a Chrome plugin that highlights public information, and on the other hand you have Stallman supporters wanting to use intimidation and violence to suppress their political opponents, and here you completely dismiss the latter while you (and many other commenters here) have to twist some macabre hypothetical Nazi allegory from the former, as if it were somehow even plausible that Molly De Blanc actually wants to send Stallmanites to the camps.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I rest my case.
Some people advocating for arresting someone for something they did, even if it is way too crazy is quite different than tools that enable discrimination based on an opinion. Remember these people are just supporting RMS, not advocating for slavery or exterminating the Jews (and even then I don't know whether you could support such a thing).
Just take a look at the "yellow badge" [1], the Jewish insignia that Nazis made Jews wear to distinguish them. This extension has far more many similarities with this example than with what you compare it to.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_badge?wprov=sfla1
Also, your link is broken. And please before you speak of "hypocrisy" and "cognitive dissonance" think of the matter at hand a bit more. Your comparing these two issues is so obviously wrong it's not even funny.