Re:A Critique of the Open Letter Calling for the Removal of RMS
by henrikschroder on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @02:11PM
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Sorry for being snarky, and as you discovered while I was sleeping, it was quotes from the article.
But on a serious note, this is the core of bullshit that powers progressive identity politics, and progressive cancel culture.
I understand RMS' comments on "them/they" as a pedantic, semantic, technically correct grammar nazi argument. But then, the authors of the demand letter to cancel RMS argue, because a trans person took offense with his statement, RMS is a transphobe.
And this kind of smearing is only possible if you subscribe to the postmodern notion that intent doesn't matter, and that "x-phobe" simply means that you offended a person of group x, regardless of your intent.
But on a serious note, this is the core of bullshit that powers progressive identity politics, and progressive cancel culture.
I understand RMS' comments on "them/they" as a pedantic, semantic, technically correct grammar nazi argument. But then, the authors of the demand letter to cancel RMS argue, because a trans person took offense with his statement, RMS is a transphobe.
And this kind of smearing is only possible if you subscribe to the postmodern notion that intent doesn't matter, and that "x-phobe" simply means that you offended a person of group x, regardless of your intent.