> If you can't justify your vote, then maybe you shouldn't be voting.

Sorry, wrong in every possible sense of the word. The only true way for an individual to be free from the consequence of placing their vote is for voting to be anonymous.

Any argument that a voter must face direct repercussions for their vote makes voting pointless.

> Anonymous voting should be enjoyed by the masses, never the ones representing them.

Well, since the debian voters are not, as far as a I know, elected by voters themselves, they are not representing anyone.

Justification doesn't work whe the other side is just yelling white supremacy

Your justifications are useless if they aren't being listened to, which was the problem back then. A huge lack of empathy and understanding.

Debian developers are not representatives. They were not elected, and they are not representing anyone's opinion other than their own. The elected positions in Debian are mostly administrative and any decision requiring voting goes to the developers as a whole, not just the elected officials.