Who controls glibc? [LWN.net]

Who controls glibc?

Posted May 10, 2018 8:53 UTC (Thu) by zenaan (guest, #3778)
In reply to: Who controls glibc? by yshuiv7
Parent article: Who controls glibc?

> Wait a second. You are saying you can assume someone is agreeing with you, if they don't respond?

It's called "tacit agreement" - yes, it's agreement by default - it is an effective (whether intentional or not) surrender to the "vocal majority" even though that vocal majority may be an absolute or relative minority.

But, in a public forum (or "modern democracy") tacit consent also implies a high likelihood of the tyranny of the minority - i.e. those who squawk the loudest get to "win" (or get the government benefits, etc).

Those who seek "safe spaces" (whatever the hell they are) are also called cry-bullies.

The SJWs or "social justice warriors" who actively "create safe spaces" by for example (to pick a totally random example) removing a short yet politically incorrect joke from documentation, are often engaged in some level of "white knighting" or virtue signaling and in any case are subsidizing bad behaviour.

Now, what could also arguably be alleged as the "bad behaviour" of a politically incorrect joke, is also a healthy poke in the ribs of the cry bullies, those trigger-ready snowflakes who self proclaim to melt at the sight of any of a million trigger words - and by publishing their melting quality far and wide, publicly and loudly, they are bullying the rest of us.

We owe it to our dignity to NOT surrender our freedom of speech or our "freedom to trigger" in our public, work and play spaces, to the dictates of the covert passive aggressive cry bullies.

And remember folks, EVERYTHING we say, all our speech, is effectively political in some way. Those who remove a short yet politically-incorrect joke from documentation are making a political statement, doing a political action, saying "this is a safe space for cry bullies, you will not pollute our safe space with politically incorrect jokes", even though it is (usually) in the guise of "we want no politics in our docs".

Who controls glibc?

Posted May 12, 2018 14:12 UTC (Sat) by niner (guest, #26151) [Link] (2 responses)

Just in case you don't know: insulting your opponent usually does not help you win an argument and will not convince anyone. All it does is reflect badly on you and reduce your credibility.

Who controls glibc?

Posted May 12, 2018 14:49 UTC (Sat) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] (1 responses)

I submit that someone who unironically links to Zero Hedge doesn't care about credibility in the first place :)

Who controls glibc?

Posted Nov 8, 2018 16:39 UTC (Thu) by deepfire (guest, #26138) [Link]

To clarify, that statement of yours says far more about your opinion of ZH, rather than about the poster.

Who controls glibc?

Posted May 16, 2018 21:09 UTC (Wed) by tartley (subscriber, #96301) [Link]

No bullying occurred at all. A suggestion was made, discussed, and eventually acted on despite some opposition. This is the normal process.

No censorship occurred at all. RMS or anyone else are free to continue making whatever jokes they want, or can publish a fork of the manual with the joke intact.

The "safe spaces" you complain about only require a moderate level of consideration for others.

I absolutely concede that sometimes people abuse that mechanism, petitioning to impose unreasonable burdens on others. In such cases, your objections would have some merit. But that has not remotely happened in this case, and unless it does, being respectful of other people's wishes is a very low bar indeed.

The joke's a bit crass. Some people don't like it. Most people don't care. Delete it and move on. No harm results. Objections to this are just crying wolf. Save it for an instance that genuinely needs attention.