Watching people try to actively start a movement* against the creator of Linux because he said “nazis are morons” is a very horrifying thing to watch.

It’s like some of you are in full denial about fact that there is an active nazi takeover going on, so you’d rather infight with people who are here to help you instead of fighting the real enemy.

Please stop.

@ErickaSimone where did he say that? (sorry, search engines aren't what they used to be :/ )
@guenther might be on fedi* or bluesky. But essentially, nazis have been trying to use the software and he went on a (rightful) rant making it very clear nazis will not be welcomed on Linux, calling them and fascists morons.

@ErickaSimone

hm, i can't find anything. his apparent bluesky account contains a single post.

@guenther @ErickaSimone In a Fediverse post: https://social.kernel.org/objects/60bcac97-e7c7-4899-a1b6-bb72196cddaf

Edit: It seems, linking to the post directly does not give the right anchor. Here's another (manually corrected) link:
https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm#selected

Linus Torvalds (@[email protected])

@morgthorak I think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me.Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order.I strongly suspect I am one of ...

@soulsource @guenther this is exactly it.

@ErickaSimone ah thank you @soulsource , now I actually do remember that one!

though he doesn't even use the word nazi there (not that it wouldn't be applicable)

@ErickaSimone @soulsource @guenther

ah yes June 2023... I see that I responded to this post favorably at the time.

I'm always happy to see prominent people trashing Nazis.

@soulsource @guenther @ErickaSimone wow that post is so old I had already boosted it twice. But thanks for the opportunity to make it boost it again.

(Also it was a reply to an account from poa.st which is a well-known Nazi instance.)

I'm kind of surprised it's making waves again, this time for the language used. But maybe I should have come to expect this kind of things from certain corners of the Fediverse.

@ErickaSimone and on top of that, he's right lol
@kattenkop HES ABSOLUTELY FKIN RIGHT. INSANE.

@ErickaSimone People find it easier to silence the kid than admit the truth about the emperor's clothes.

We saw the same thing with Gaza, Trump, etc.

@baishen the emperors clothes energy all through this situation. Now I’m starting to see why I loved that book growing up. lol.
@ErickaSimone the quest for 'purity' just enables our enemies, I'm assuming these critics are reading that CIA manual on disrupting movements and using every trick in that book.
@Lazarou “quest for purity” is a wild but accurate statement.

@ErickaSimone wow, i remember reading the post from somewhere but the original was from over a year ago? and people are dissecting the wording *now* to call it ableist in the context of gun ownership

yeah, that's some kiwi farms tier trolling, right there

(granted, i think it should be expanded a bit in the current situation if only because right wingers won't go to therapy to get diagnosed and we really need all the weapons we can get, but still)

@ErickaSimone
Thank you for this.
Like, it's possible to acknowledge ageist language is harmful, without going full purity test.
We need to remember to judge utterances on BOTH the words used and the contextual intent.