Null on the forced resignation of Stallman from the Open Source honorary boards.Cropped from the stream titled “Complacency”
I find myself in a weird spot where anywhere I want to talk about something, isn’t the right place to do so. For the past almost 6 months I’ve enjoyed the content of and supported financially the owner of KiwiFarms.I won’t do like other people and say his real-name pointlessly just to use gotcha points, or say much about his personal life, but he opened my eyes to a lot of real world issues facing society today. I enjoyed his site and still do.He taught me about anonymity in the current world, crypto-currency,history,copyright law, the list goes on and on.So, with that much positivism and the liking I took to him you might be wondering why I’m writing this and why I took the time to clip something from his stream, that clip in particular. There’s a complicated relationship with my social and content creating circles, one that I can’t exactly open up about anywhere.I’ve always said this was my public diary, and personal cathartic exercise so, why not here? Null makes racy jokes, he’s an internet guy, in his own weird form of networking, site management, all that shit. So, it’s only natural he pops racist, sexist, “insert whatever here”phobic jokes. Some are misogynistic, others against transgender people. No biggie says I, I hate lotsa people too. I think everybody should be able to be made fun of.Let’s be real, the transgender movement and feminist movement both earn their right to be absolutely lambasted for their pancake-face attempts at protecting rights while crushing others and they’ve destroyed most average joe’s ability to really ever care about any real issue they could ever face. Poisoning their own well, is commonplace. So, I shrug those jokes off, because I get where they come from. But, when Null says something like he did in that clip….it’s hard to root for him. It’s hard for me to continually give him money every month when I know that’s how he feels about me, “a risk”, “burning things down to the ground” I’m probably paraphrasing a bit but eh who cares. I know that you could argue that based on his defense of egalitarianism, he may not be arguing for exclusion, just talent and work ethic alone being a qualifier, which I agree on. I just can’t support that specific sentence and knowing that he said it so matter-of-factly, doubling down on it, it’s given me pause. So, I cancelled my payments, I won’t give BAT to him anymore. I did the same thing when Kendrick Lamar got mad at a white fan singing the lyrics of his songs the way they were written and I do it all the time. Maybe, I’m oversensitive and just proving the point that women and trans people are unstable. I have enough sense to think of that.
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