t2021-03-25T05-18-03-374603.md - tgtimes - The Gopher Times (HTM) git clone git://bitreich.org/tgtimes git://enlrupgkhuxnvlhsf6lc3fziv5h2hhfrinws65d7roiv6bfj7d652fid.onion/tgtimes (DIR) Log (DIR) Files (DIR) Refs (DIR) Tags --- t2021-03-25T05-18-03-374603.md (1158B) --- 1 # 2021-03-25 05:18:03.374603 UTC (+0000) 2 3 Where Was The Racism? 4 5 As a reaction to open source becoming a cancel culture of choice and 6 hysterical people seeing a word as a problem to really go for threatening 7 with legal acts, calling the police, telling people, they go down the 8 drain, are bad people for the rest of the life, we posted a poll asking 9 about »yellow people«. 10 11 In this study of the gopher mailinglist, 50% of the replies saw no 12 racism and 50% saw racism, with overreactions. 13 14 As we see, open source has an inherent problem of cancel culture, 15 diverting us from technical merits to social-cultural blockers, keeping 16 out people who could contribute neutrally to the greater work of free 17 software, but are thrown out because of small triggers. 18 19 This trigger cancel culture gets a big part of society to not speak about 20 some topics and is the way towards 1984. We slowly forbid ourselves words 21 and are not able to communicate properly. 22 23 So the big questions remains: Where was the racism? 24 25 26 Sincerely yours, 27 28 20h 29 Family Doctor, who has sworn to treat every patient equally, no matter 30 where he/she/it is from, looks like, political viewpoints are. 31