A chart showing the signature count as a graph comparing the #rms open support letter vs the anti-stallman letter... yay the letter in support of stallman is not just winning, but it seems to be growing in support where the other letter has lost steam and stopped growing.
The link below includes the script used to generate the chart
@freemo That makes sense. The folks signing the letter against Stallman care about the open source community and it's commitment to inclusiveness and diversity. The folks signing the letter in support of Stallman are more concerned with "men's rights" or fighting "cancel culture." It would take them longer to hear about it, since they're not a part of the community, but surprise, surprise, there are more insecure men on the internet than free software advocates. 🙄
mens rights _are_ a thing as long as eg. men who chose to invest more time in their children than into their jobs are considered weak, as it means that it should be the womans job.
cancel culture is a problem, the anger of many gets unloaded on a single person, warranted or not. it's just lynch mobs with cyber. "down the memory hole with him!"
it doesn't even fix any problems, but silences symptoms of a fucked up society. the problems still exist, they only aren't visible anymore.
@freemo @bonifartius I would like to add that the word "Diversity", often coming together with two other words "Inclusion" "Equity" means something very different from how people think they are: Diversity is about the diversity of identies(e.g. black man, colored woman, transgender, the fat and the disabled), not about the diversity of opinions and thoughts, in the name of diversity the woke promotes conformity of ideology, namely critical social justice theory, so you have black critical theorists, transgender critical theorists, fat critical theorists who believe basically the same thing about power dynamics and hidden oppressive structure underlying pretty much all of our daily activities, or daily languages, yet are invisible to most people, they can only be spotted by someone with critical conscious, who is "woke". Inclusion in practice basically means speech codes and safety spaces, that you are only allowed to speak in a specific way, that is, the politically correct way, in order not to offend ethnic minorities, racial minorities, the disabled, etc, and offense is defined solely by the perceived feelings of the receiving end regardless what your intentions are. As a consequence you need to segregate different groups of people in to racial/ethnic/gender categories, they don't call it segregation but it is segregation. Equity means not the equality before the law, or equality of opportunities, but the equality of outcome, so if there are 13.4% black population in the US, it means organizations such as FSF must has 13.4% percentage of black people (in fact black critical theorist) in older of have them well represented. Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, the Trinity of the woke cult, along with the postmodernist obsession with power, the hostility towards science(they call it the Eurocentric white males tool for dominance), reason, enlightenment valves, liberalism, characterizes pretty much all of the woke ideology. It is the same cult that attempts (often by means of coercion and intimidation) to infiltrate every single organizations of the world, and has been successful in doing so in the media, the Democratic Party in the US and the the Labour Party in the UK , ACLU, well knowned academic institutions like the Harvard, Oxford, Princeton. Now it's trying to infiltrate the free software movement through the same tactics.
It is suggested to watch James Lindsay elaboration on this matter: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3jLNgLABuTw
And the documentary of Evergreen, about how the Trinity of woke works in practice.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Wny9TstEM
@Vectorfield
Seems about right.
@bonifartius