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When Did Diversity Become a Product Sold to Corporations and to Privileged Autocrats?

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Summary: The Free software community needs to get more vocal about opportunism in an ongoing corporate coup; it calls its resistors (to the coup) all sorts of "isms" while the said corporations are dishing out money to form a misleading narrative (inversion of accusations)

TWENTY odd hours ago we published this video about EPO pinkwashing. A bunch of gangsters -- outright criminals (like Benoît Battistelli with his Vichy family roots) -- are hijacking gay people to make themselves seem ethical.



"...$6,000 is not a small amount of money when your target audience is at most a couple hundred people."Last night we published "Open Source Initiative: Pay Us $6,000 and We'll Present You as Supporting Diversity", citing similar behaviour from the Linux Foundation. They've literally turned gay people into a commodity to be sold while crushing online communities.

They they have the extreme audacity to gag/censor people using inflated accusations of bigotry and intolerance -- the very thing those corporations do for profit! What an incredible reversal of narratives!

As we noted last month, even LibreOffice started selling keynotes (keynote talks/speaking slots) and we know who can afford these; $6,000 is not a small amount of money when your target audience is at most a couple hundred people.

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