Reminder for underrepresented folk feeling sad discovering that some of the "founders" of Open Source are also open eugencists. Don't feel so sad! Because a lot of founders of Open Source are openly and vocally disdainful of those eugenicists, racists, and other bigots. ♥️👍🏿

There are a lot of different personalities in Open Source. And given the demographics of what OSS looked like back in the days, the percentage of bigots is higher than the public at large.

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@mekkaokereke i'm out of the loop on this. Who are these newly discovered shitheads

@filifa @mekkaokereke I'm similarly lost, sorry, and these search results might be leading in the wrong direction:

<https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=eugenics+open+source&cat=news>

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Emma Builds 🚀 (@[email protected])

@[email protected] DHH for his racism. Mullenweg for transphobia. That's just a couple.

Orbital Horse
@realn2s thanks for giving context to this. The library.duke.edu blog post is enough to give me a sense of what's going on.