Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome

On 2025-05-01, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-05-01 09:54, Borax Man wrote:

On 2025-04-30, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-04-29 21:22, % wrote:

vallor wrote:

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:25:31 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vurqlr$2utdn$2@dont-email.me>:
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On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:37:14 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
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"But just to be extra clear: Fuck Nazis, GNOME is Antifa."

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Who could possibly object to that?
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Except perhaps closet Nazis ...

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Unfortunately, they are all over the Usenet.
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(And some not-so-closet Nazis...)
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i'm glad you support them

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Just when I was considering unblocking him. In his opinion, anyone who
is or supports conservatives is a Nazi, even though Hitler himself was
nowhere near conservative and neither was his party.
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He'll have to entertain himself with the effeminate posts by Joel and
Chris Ahlstrom because I doubt that anyone else is excited by how he
updated his kernel.
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I don't think they really believe that.  Its a useful rhetorical device
when you want to wield power.  In the past, people would change tracks
and try to disprove this spurious allegations, which gave them moral and
political leverage.  This is why so many organisations have let them in,
just a little, to stop the accusations.  Its not a statement of fact, or
genuine, its to illicit fear and put you on the backfoot.  Companies
will spend $$$$ to not have people like him accuse them of being
uninclusive or whatever.

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Being inclusive is the dumbest strategy I've ever seen. The public
school I'm at has no choice but to be inclusive and accept all of what
the people living here have to offer. The result is that the school is
ranked near the bottom of the list for academic excellence. There's a
reason private schools outperform the public ones all the time:
excluding obvious garbage is a winning strategy. How to know what's
garbage? Give potential students a test.
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But you can't do that, can you? You see, providing a test written black
on white on a paper without even looking at what the student looks like
is "racist" because blacks and brown-skinned people don't succeed as
well. It's not the person's fault. No, no, the test is racist!
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It's a big beat up really.  Just treat people with the respect they
deserve (not I didn't say just treat people with respect).  Some people
try to find problems, and when you deliberately go rooting for problems,
you'll find them.  So everyone tries hard to avoid being accused. It's a
racket.  If you can convince everyone that systemic racism is
everywhere, you can charge $$$$$ to "fix" the problem with your
workshops and speeches.  The fact is, scared people are throwing money
at them, scared devs are allowing them into software projects to "fix"
them.  Scared companies are putting their programs in place for fear of
being sued, or having bad press.

This is why in Australia, and I'm sure in the US, the casting for
television commercials seems to be done very carefully to avoid any
potential accusations of not being inclusive.  Few believe in this
stuff, they're just trying to avoid being called bad names.  It leads
people to make bad, bad mistakes.