On 5/30/23 18:51, Natasha Ament wrote:
Op di 30 mei 2023 om 10:22 schreef Wouter Onebekend <wouter.onebekend@proton.me>:
Hello,
On Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 at 8:00 AM, Natasha Ament <stacheldrahtje@gmail.com> wrote:
Just like everyone on the right is a 'bigot' or 'literally Hitler'?
Like most people on my side, I just want to be left alone. This is not possible in a world increasingly controlled by radical leftists who want to have a controlling interest in where I live, what car I drive (or whether I drive a car at all), how I raise my kids, how I heat my home, whether I get to eat meat, or even what words I am no longer allowed to use when writing code. This is why I speak out against them from time to time. Under a pseudonym because they would absolutely come for me in various ways were they to learn my real name. For the one thing they cannot tolerate is somebody openly disagreeing with them. If that happens too often, the climate of fear they have managed to establish to dominate discourse in most places will get cracks.
Truth be told, I do not think I am going to get much of anywhere with my ranting and raving. But it still beats only preaching to a small choir of fellow far right dissidents in hushed tones. Most of them learned the hard way exactly how intolerant the "tolerant" left is and do not need convincing. Those who - perhaps even unwittingly - play along with that game of iron intolerance against the "intolerant" I may be able to convince or at least sow a few seeds of doubt in.
You want to be left alone but you do insist on telling others what they should or should not do. That does not make much sense.
As a closing remark I would like to note that free speech is by no means unlimited. Insults, Slander and Libel are examples of limitations of free speech. Private Organizations as openSUSE can deviate from that even without a code of conduct. Welcome to the world of free enterprise. The code of conduct is to give some insight in how the organisation expects participants to behave. IMNSHO This beats the hell out of the situation without the Code of Conduct. If you feel this is not the place for you then please make sure the door doesn't hit you on the way out ;-)
Id like to think that rather then encouraging people to leave because they disagree with something the more tolerant approach would be to encourage people to agree to disagree and continue to contribute to the project in there preferred manner. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B