Re:Debian votes to make no statement regarding RMS readmissi...
by gerhardhaering on Sunday April 18, 2021 @12:35PM
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I fail to see how any of this is intolerant, or transphobic. You might not like these opinions. Or disagree that there is good reasoning behind some of this. This does not make the one you are disagreeing with intolerant.
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Re:Debian votes to make no statement regarding RMS readmissi...
by zajio1am on Sunday April 18, 2021 @12:49PM
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> I fail to see how any of this is intolerant, or transphobic.
Yes. RMS argued for gender-neutral pronouns since more than twenty years ago. Just because it is a different set of neutral pronouns than is popular today, some people mark him transphobic. That is absurd.
Re:Debian votes to make no statement regarding RMS readmissi...
by fsf4lyfe on Sunday April 18, 2021 @01:10PM
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Indeed, and it's no surprise that this attempted cancellation of RMS is being pushed by the pronoun enthusiast crowd. These tend to be the type of people who simply can't stand any dissenting opinions to their dogma.
Unfortunately, the more tolerant attitude of just agreeing to disagree seems to have gone out of fashion. Now the preferred option is to destroy a person's entire career and slander their reputation with deliberate misinterpretations of what they've said and done.
Re:Debian votes to make no statement regarding RMS readmissi...
by solosoyokaze on Monday April 19, 2021 @09:36AM
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It’s not slander if it’s true, and you can be disgusted with RMS without bringing politics into it. He’s bad for the free software movement. It’s as simple as that.