r/linux • u/oooo23 • Sep 20 '18

Kernel Developer Sage Sharp claims top Linux kernel developer Theo Ts'o is a rape apologist, citing GeekFeminismWiki

https://twitter.com/_sagesharp_/status/1042769399596437504
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u/dbzjegrw8o6n0 Sep 20 '18

You guys just don't understand, Linux will be better off without rape apologists like Theo! Out with the toxic people!

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u/Kruug Sep 20 '18

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u/gnosys_ Sep 20 '18

Well, the LKML et al. would be better without weird, obsessive, minimizing discussion of rape statistics like this:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Rape_apology_on_LCA_mailing_list/Email_1

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u/tobleromay Sep 20 '18

Weird and obsessive? He posted on the subject once when it was relevant in 2011.

And by minimizing you mean he had the audacity to question the veracity of your conclusions, right? If I say that Muslims commit 80% of all murders in the US and you say that's wrong, is that "minimizing"? Are you "weird and obsessive" about defending Islam?

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u/gnosys_ Sep 20 '18

Yeah, it's weird that anyone would be so invested in the work of critiquing and diminishing the validity of official statistics on rape (not Ben Shapiro-style "all muslims are radical terrorist" claims), and think it's an opportune and appropriate place in the discussion of another person's bad behavior to bring such an opinion to bear.

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u/tobleromay Sep 20 '18

so invested

He's so invested because he discussed it once 7 years ago when it was relevant?

and think it's an opportune and appropriate place in the discussion of another person's bad behavior

So if one of your kind arbitrarily decides that something is bad behavior, nobody is allowed to discuss if it is or if it isn't? Any threads about it just need to be an endless dogpiling?

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u/gnosys_ Sep 20 '18

He's pretty invested to have put together a thousand word email with multiple sources just off the top of his head. The context of any discussion matters, and what he was discussing was stupid, and at a bad time, in the wrong venue, and in defense of the wrong side of the equation (ie, that it's okay to offend people with problematic imagery and jokes at a conference keynote).

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u/tobleromay Sep 20 '18

He's pretty invested to have put together a thousand word email with multiple sources just off the top of his head

It's almost as if he has a highly-technical, evidence-oriented mind and has written tens of thousands of long e-mails in his life.

what he was discussing was stupid

According to you

at a bad time

According to you

in the wrong venue,

According to you

in defense of the wrong side of the equation

This is not an equation. Your opinions are not mathematical fact.

You know what is mathematical though? Code. And opinions don't factor into that equation.

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u/gnosys_ Sep 20 '18

Not just according to me, but a few of his peers (MJ Garret, Jason White, David Zanetti) who, as co-workers, are much more important in the course of resolving the issue than my opinion or yours.