Canceling Free Software Developers for 'Wrongthink'
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-01-03 06:05:54 UTC
- Modified: 2020-01-03 06:05:54 UTC
Summary: The slippery slope of uniformal thinking in Debian project
Hours ago at
Debian Community News:
Rhonda D'Vine, a Debian Developer from Austria, recently wrote about actively excluding people from free software projects.
At first glance, what D'Vine is proposing amounts to emotional blackmail.
This is the psychology of cults: people must show a blind obedience to the leaders and suppress their own feelings and ideas or they are treated rudely.
[...]
D'Vine's musings reveal an Austrian/German cultural defect: a desire and willingness to control everybody around you or eliminate them. An unwillingness to invest in relationships with people you wouldn't normally count as close friends.
The fact that D'Vine independently derives this philosophy from her own environment, which includes Debian, suggests a disturbing possibility that those from a German cultural background will keep reviving the philosophy behind the Holocaust from time to time whenever they participate in a state or organization with mixed cultures.
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