• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If Linus Torvalds came out as a pedophile tomorrow, he would be actively shunned from the community. Just saying.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      RMS did not do anything as bad as child fucking and look what happened to him.

      No, I am not justifying what he did I am only saying it isn’t as bad as raping a kid.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      not my point. I’m saying the argument I was originally responding to is saying that is Torvalds came out as a pedophile then all Linux users or users of products with Linux on would be pedophiles by association.

      that, I assert, is ridiculous and if I was to guess at it’s motivation I would say it’s certainly Islamophobia, likely xenophobia and probably racism.