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Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects
(www.theregister.com)
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if I dip a pH strip in my drinking water and it indicates my water is acidic, am I not entitled to stop drinking from that source because it failed my purity test?
Let's not confuse "entitled" with "justified". Of course you are legally entitled to boycott whatever you want, nobody seems to question that. The issue is whether or not you can be legitimately criticism for it.
Suppose that you had 20 glasses, you tested 4 of them and found that 2 were "too acidic". Are you then justified in drinking the other 18 glasses?
The reality is that you have probably personally supported people who are far more egregious than the subjects here. Abusers, murderers, rapists, etc... Is your support of them an endorsement of their actions? Is your/societies providing medical care to these people an endorsement of their actions?
No. We can parse between what actions we endorse and what actions we don't, because we are rational beings. Or rather some of us are.
it just sounds like you're bending over backwards to make trans and racialized people drink polluted water. and you're trying to convince the rest of us that the water is just fine actually because you have a reverse osmosis system installed (being cis or white)
No, I pointing out that the filters don't actually work.
Transphobic and racist behaviour isn't going to disappear just because you boycott it.
The consequences of bigotry aren't reading mean tweets, it's going to a job interview and having the prospective employer think "eww.. I don't like this candidate". Boycotting is not going to fix that, because your purity test can't even detect it.
I don't purity test people because the reality is that most/all people have some harmful notions, it's not productive or good for anyone to ostracize them so long as we can promote the good they do, and mitigate the harm.
if we're doing criticisms now, you're failing to do the most basic of revolutionary activities by deep-throating the Aryan boot instead of simply polishing it like a normal quisling should
I would never ever advocate for murdering people because Nazis aren't considered people. they decided to abandon their right to life by advocating for taking mine away