Monday, September 24th 2018
Linux Community Hit by the Blight of Social Justice Warfare, A Great Purge is Coming
Through the 1990s, Microsoft had become a super-corporation threatening to monopolize all of computing. A band of talented developers got together with lawyers that could fish out loopholes in proprietary licenses, and with some generosity from big software, Linux grew from a scrappy Unix-like OS kernel to the preeminent operating system for enterprises at first, and handheld consumer electronics later. Today it's most popular operating system on the planet. Like every big organization, the Linux Foundation is hit by employee-activism.
Employee-activism is the new unionism. Whereas trade-unions of the old fought for tangible bread-and-butter issues affecting blue-collar folk of the early Industrial era, today's employee-activist is an intellectual predator seeking to maximize their organizational footprint on the backs of other people echoing their political ideas, often through blatant insubordination and disregard for the chain of command. Survival of the fittest has changed to "survival of the loudest." From forcing Linus Torvalds to apologize for speaking his mind in public, to coming up with a new Code of Conduct document, social-justice activism within the Linux Foundation threatens to devolve the culture of meritocracy to a toxic "safe space" prioritizing inclusion of identity rather than skill, as HardOCP comments. A major blow-back from the meritocrats is taking shape.
In a major revision to the license, software developers contributing to the Linux kernel source-code will soon be able to withdraw their contribution, if they are ever cornered by the rest of the community over perceived code-of-conduct violation (i.e. not pandering to identity politics or speaking their minds like Torvalds does). This is big, as many of the older generations of contributors who have made critical contributions without with Linux cannot function, now have a legal recourse, and could reduce the amount of political activism within the community.
Since 2015, identity politicians have been trying to force the Linux Foundation to join the Contributor Covenant, a special Code-of-Conduct agreement that seeks to change the "the predominantly white, straight, and male face of programming." On September 16, the Foundation agreed to implement CC Code of Conduct. Shortly following that, groups of pro-CC developers went on a character-assassination spree of top Linux developers by amplifying and often distorting, their political views (which are irrelevant to the task of programming).
Sources:
Lulz, HardOCP
Employee-activism is the new unionism. Whereas trade-unions of the old fought for tangible bread-and-butter issues affecting blue-collar folk of the early Industrial era, today's employee-activist is an intellectual predator seeking to maximize their organizational footprint on the backs of other people echoing their political ideas, often through blatant insubordination and disregard for the chain of command. Survival of the fittest has changed to "survival of the loudest." From forcing Linus Torvalds to apologize for speaking his mind in public, to coming up with a new Code of Conduct document, social-justice activism within the Linux Foundation threatens to devolve the culture of meritocracy to a toxic "safe space" prioritizing inclusion of identity rather than skill, as HardOCP comments. A major blow-back from the meritocrats is taking shape.
In a major revision to the license, software developers contributing to the Linux kernel source-code will soon be able to withdraw their contribution, if they are ever cornered by the rest of the community over perceived code-of-conduct violation (i.e. not pandering to identity politics or speaking their minds like Torvalds does). This is big, as many of the older generations of contributors who have made critical contributions without with Linux cannot function, now have a legal recourse, and could reduce the amount of political activism within the community.
Since 2015, identity politicians have been trying to force the Linux Foundation to join the Contributor Covenant, a special Code-of-Conduct agreement that seeks to change the "the predominantly white, straight, and male face of programming." On September 16, the Foundation agreed to implement CC Code of Conduct. Shortly following that, groups of pro-CC developers went on a character-assassination spree of top Linux developers by amplifying and often distorting, their political views (which are irrelevant to the task of programming).
653 Comments on Linux Community Hit by the Blight of Social Justice Warfare, A Great Purge is Coming
Normal response: Oh, sorry! I didn't realize I messed up that bad. I'll try to fix it.
SJW response: YOU HATE MY CODE BECAUSE I'M A THEY! (identity-based retaliation because of insecurity)
Kind of defines the type: always quick to throw the minority card especially when it is irrelevant.
Even if people lash out inappropriately, it is appropriate to state that they did and ask why. This is the first step to reaching an understanding.
At most, they taught something along the lines of "opression produces angry people," which is probably true. The other two they made an active point to debunk.Like his "Fuck you, NVIDIA!" speech complete with dual middle fingers, over NVIDIA not open sourcing their driver stack?
edit: Whoa.. you went to Evergreen.
Seriously.. is this the same college?
Likewise, there is a vocal conservative group that likes to show us dead fetuses and tell us we are all going to hell every day on the way into class.
It's an interesting place. Granted I went before the contraversey perpetuated in that video, but same place I imagine.
Go geoducks go...
Of course the academics are largely divorced from the social environment of the institution. Thing is, and what the book/video stress, is that the divorce needs to end. Kids are coming into these schools wholly unprepared to deal with the real world. Colleges need to step up to counter it. If they don't (which none are right now), their students take these fringe ideas to the workplace and suddenly it becomes the employer's problem. What can the employer reasonably do? Not much because of anti-discrimination law. Employers are forced to bend over backwards for these people. *cough*Linux Foundation*cough*
As for your video, I refuse to watch anything with Grimace in it. Old rule sorry... but that's possible the most disturbing thing ever to come out of McDonalds.
www.theolympian.com/opinion/editorials/article212226769.html
Yes, it's a minority but that minority is growing every year because of the quality (or lack thereof) of students coming in keeps declining. The iPhone debuted in 2007--11 years ago. The generation that was born with a phone in their hand hasn't reached college age yet. We're just seeing the tip of the iceberg now.It's a joke that only appears once towards the end of it. TL;DW: the school promoted segregation and the events hosted during the segregation were...well...basically the list in the preamble of the new Code of Conduct.
The "Day of Absence" was a longstanding evergreen tradation, a day designed to show what the world would be like without a certain group. Used to just be minorities, one day some clever PR person thought it'd be interesting to invert it and do it for white people. It was designed to highlight how bad the world would be without the missing group. Obviously it backfired completely and frankly, the whole idea was always rather silly. It needed to die long ago in my view but was really a harmless thing blown out of proportion.
It was also optional, and no classwork was to be assigned that day IIRC.
That they made a target out of "Bret Weinstein" is telling (the professor they attacked the most in some vids.. for saying segregation was a bad idea). He's a Leftist himself.. of the hippy variety. Yet it shows how close to the edge they've gone, when a Leftist, Jewish hippy professor is the "oppressive white patriarchy" to these students.
Here he is being interviewed by David Rubin.. another supposed "Nazi" now. Even though he's a gay Jewish guy who used to work at the Young Turks.
I refuse to take out a student loan. Not a type to be indebted to that level.As much as I hate Bret, because he DID stir up a shitstorm for no good reason and deserved his consqeuences IMO, what they did to smearmonger him was fucking unfair. He's about as much a nazi as I am a hippopotamus.It wasn't really segeregation, it was a badly planned purely optional event based in a longstanding college tradition that the media got wind of via Bret and blew up like a hydrogen bomb. It was actually designed to recognize and praise the group being asked to leave.
Ironic to a degree it was never an issue when the various minority groups left campus, which went on for almost a decade (at least?)
PS: My chief reason for not going back is... complicated. The professor I was last studying with and really engaged with, whom I can only remember as "Rob" now (it's been a while) died of brain cancer (second bout with it, no less. Tough dude). He taught a Russia and Eurasia history program. Unfortunately I can't find him now as his last name escapes memory and he is no longer in the staff directory well, being dead.
And I'd still argue a lot of the principles aren't wrong.He does. But you have to understand. At evergreen, going to fox news is about the same as going to make a message for ISIS. He was trying to stir up shit just by that alone. There is no way another media outlet wouldn't have taken that story, especially the way he spun it. He went for the most proactive one. This to me, speaks miles to his intentions.
Also, third world country with free health and education, f*ck yeah.
edit: Free Healthcare is something I'd get behind though if Americans were as healthy as Europeans.
Which isn't happening, of course.
But then that'd be political.I'm totally aware of it. Sometimes it's pretty big on my worry list, truth be told. But... I hope for things to get better. We can't be this gullible, I hope.
Paraphrasing from that linked Bret Weinstein video: equality of opportunity (doable) cannot be confused with equality of result (so many factors at play).
But he's a liar. He lied about his service in Vietnam. How can you trust someone who makes this big of a public lie?
www.snopes.com/fact-check/richard-blumenthal-vietnam/
The "media cycle" in America gets very bored easily and "forgets" a lot of things.. and hopes you forget too. Trump OTOH is a master of media manipulation and branding - he STAYS in the news on purpose. He got over a billion dollars in free advertising during the Presidential campaign, just because he knew how to constantly stay in the news (for better or worse). Don't think it wasn't intentional. He's been doing it since I was a little kid. And as far as Twitter goes, it's good to have some supposed "madman" on Twitter with 50 million followers just to remind you of another side to the story.
As distasteful as he is, I think he's the perfect guy for the job at this moment in time. He self-funded his own campaign and isn't beholden to anyone, and knows how to use the media. People have been wanting an outsider for a long time -- and this is it. Ugly as it is, this is it. You won't get better.
I do think the meat of the topic has been discussed in full. The ball is in the Linux Foundation's court.
But regardless, my point was his twitter feed is intentionally divisive and very "us vs them." There really is no denying that.