No, IBM Does Not Care About People With Disabilities
Last summer: IBM's Wayland Has Hurt Blind People, This is How Fedora's DEI Room Talks About That | IBM's Abandonment of Disabled People (Orca and Wayland Incompatibility) Has Basically Killed Their "DEI" Channel (Room)
The GNOME people (many Red Hat staff, i.e. IBM) want us to think they care about blind people and other people with disabilities. They are making excuses for their colleagues, the "Wayland People" (an overlapping group).
To better understand IBM's history we must go back to its roots of eugenics.
Herman Hollerith (1860-1929) had learning disabilities, yet years after he died IBM used his invention to "barcode" and process people's records for the process of eugenics by extermination. Adolf Hitler, as we pointed out in 2019, decided to get rid of disabled people, arguing they were a burden on society. “Aktion T4” finished them off. As we put it 6 years ago: "Historians estimate the overall death toll of “Aktion T4” to have been around 300,000 and many consider that it was used by the Nazis as a “dry run” for the subsequent implementation of the Holocaust."
That was around 1939, back when IBM's founder (Watson) backed Hitler and worked for him, insisting that Hitler was doing the right thing.
“Aktion T4” did not seem to bother Watson.
And here we are 85 years later. █
