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Yeah, this looks like trying to avoid conflict by shutting down a person pushing back against bad behavior, instead of trying to mediate the situation to come to a just resolution. It's shallow and gross and not sustainable.
I think it's a big flaw of the mailing list system of the kernel development. Marcan's reaction led to everyone trying to "protect the thread" from being "derailed" and ignore the actual comments that in themselves should've been discussed properly.
Even leads to people here saying Marcan overreacted when I think on other social media platforms this would've been its own conversation separate to the conduct of other users.
I say this purely speculatively since I havent ever held a longrunning group convo in a mailing list intentionally.
Maybe he's not American? Isn't that just an American thing?
Linus is definitely not American. That is no excuse he way he just ignored the dma maintainer's behavior and that is no excuse for why nobody in leadership did or said anything even after the connotation of the phrase was explained by another in the thread. The only thing that brought enough attention for any comment was marcan's responses, and Linus just basically came in and said to stop making noise.
The words may be american but the mindset is the same for cops around the globe.