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
Here's a good dose of media manipulation that truly sums up the kind of mindgames these people play (and it's reported from the Leftist Jimmy Dore I mentioned earlier). It shows just how far they'll go... even with nuclear war at stake.
P.S. Back to immigration. I'm a child of an immigrant myself. Except my mom did it legally... then worked worked tirelessly, learned English, got a GED, and became a small business owner. Don't mistake me as being indifferent or anything. I'm proud of her for this.
And finally, aren't most Linux contributors anonymous? How the heck do they even know if most of them are cis white males? Heck, how could they know if they are mostly male, or cis, or white?
How about the random kernel contributor from Poland? What the hell does anyone have on them, in recent history?
Calling them all simply "white" is pretty lame in itself.
Edit: Depending on your endian I guess
I was just ranting about "white cis", and trying differentiate nations. Not really important, since I wouldn't want anyone to be held to that. It's kind of ridiculous.
I'm also not surprised this is linked to HardOCP, considering I was banned from their site, a while back, for calling out someone who was being racist towards African-Americans. He was allowed to edit his post, which had been up for hours, so that it was only a little less racist, and a HardOCP staff member banned me after I questioned his support of the racism and the poster being racist. Texas, conservatism, and racism, at it's finest.
Would it make you feel better that I'm a half-Thai, half Scandi Texan who's got Black, Mexican, Asian, and White friends? And I'm not much different than many here. I've been here most of my life, and while I've had some racist experiences, it's not that common.
edit: I think the most accurate info now is those hurricanes. That's about it. Then you see people in these so called "racist" areas (Texas, Florida, Carolinas) just simply helping each other out. That's real. That's how the actual people are. They're not the subhumans these coastal news organizations usually broadcast out to the country or through their movie stereotypes... getting everyone else all anxious and shit. The sky is falling! The country has gone to hell. Racists! KKK! Nazis in the White House and running on the streets!
I wish people could be a little happier. All they have to do is relax.. and breathe the fresh air. Nothing is as bad as it seems.
I would explain but it's tough to type out on mobile... Maybe Ford will do the honors if you are lucky.
It's called a use case, and it has one.Ah. Forgive me, but I thought more of my fellow TPU'ers. Should have figured we'd be being brigaded rather than have some semblence of balanced views.
I'm also deeply disturbed by btarunr's "closet dweller" implication, seeing what he meant now it was quite... inappropriate. But I will say no more. This may be it for me.