• wewbull@feddit.uk
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      2 hours ago

      …because removing somebody’s kernel maintainer priv and the industrialised genocide of people is remotely comparable.

      • Z_Poster365 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        19 hours ago

        The principle remains. “My government is bad so I have to also be bad” is not a valid argument, no matter the relative levels of badness. It’s a lazy, morally bankrupt worldview

        And Linus didn’t do his racist shit while dragging his feet anyway, he did so gleefully and while repeating chauvinist racist narratives