Jeff Geerling, the affable and adorkable raspberry pi guy, was a misogynistic forced-birth tradcath extremist from at least 2009 to 2013, and as far as I know, still is today. Do not link to him and do not support his work. This is a matter of record on his own website: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/tags/abortion
abortion | Jeff Geerling

@glyph

that's quite bad
however

I've become a bit exhausted with zero tolerance against bad opinions.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect everyone to agree with our values nearly as closely as is often expected.
In this case I think it is reasonable to condemn these opinions, they're quite far out there.
But will people agree that it's worth boycotting?

Of course you want to limit the influence of these opinions, but
1. I don't think our ideas are popular enough, if construed narrowly enough, that we'll succeed
2. I think it's possible to distance yourself from these ideas and suppress them and counteract their proliferation without e.g. refusing to share any content by someone who is bigoted

idk how much this really applies here, that is indeed some proper catholic skulduggery, but I just wanted to air my frustration here

@anselmschueler @glyph

Me, I've gotten a bit exhausted with people thinking it's okay to impose their religions on others.

@jztusk @glyph I don't see these two positions in conflict. My position isn't to just let conservatives impose their will on us.

@anselmschueler @glyph

> I think it's possible to distance yourself from these ideas and suppress them .... without e.g. refusing to share any content by someone who is bigoted

Maybe. But we will definitely be more effective if people have to pay a price for advocating such shitty governmental policies.

If you want to have some interaction with fascists while criticizing them, that's your choice. Don't know why you feel the need to critique someone making sure others know they're fascists.

@jztusk @glyph The original post contains the call to action to not link to them.