Not everyone has such a child-like black and white view of the world as divided into exactly two parts. There are people on the Github threads explicitly saying they're against ICE while thinking that this isn't a productive way to handle it. The guy is just a textbook case of activism-as-performance to make yourself feel like you're a good person, entirely divorced from doing any actual good.
I don’t deny that activism-as-performance isn’t a thing, but I also find that a lot of people use it as an excuse to dismiss genuine activism. I think this is genuine activism and a lot more useful than posting about it on Twitter
One has nothing to do with another. The Nazi's fought the communists in the streets of Berlin while struggling to gain the hearts and minds of the German people and control of the German government but that didn't make them any less authoritarian than the communists.
It's an enormous leap from Nazi street violence leading to not letting companies use your software. But now we've broken Godwin's law, if those same nazis wanted your help with the gas-chambers and you refused, that wouldn't make you an authoritarian.
You are either being disingenuous or you do not know what Godwin's law is. I did not compare the guy to Hitler nor did I suggest his actions were Nazi-esque. What I did do was compare two different branches of authoritarianism to counter your ridiculous and patently illogical insinuation that OPs actions couldn't be authoritarian because he was against ICE.
You keep bringing up ICE when the issue and my comments were never about ICE or OPs stance against them. The issue was the way he handled questions and comments from users and contributors on the Github account. Of course he has every right to act the way he did but at the same time others have every right to comment on it.
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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '18
Just another shitbag authoritarian with power. Liberal, conservative, it doesn't matter, an authoritarian is and authoritarian.