Anyhow. Let me make this abundandtly clear for all the people with all the wrong reasons and absolute worst meanings:

I have absolutely no problem with Gnome Foundation having their stance against such a vulgar restriction. If you ever read anything on this channel, you know I really love politics and I like myself a cup of politicians since they’re such idiots to begin with. As I don’t have great details on the subject, I won’t make any statements regarding the subject travel restrictions in US. But I do know how stupid your TSA is and how pointless their efforts really are; thus it’s quite possible to speculate on the mental capabilities of your policy-makers and their extremely smart ideas. Back on topic, I agree with many people having concerns over various events that might take place in United States and that’s an understandable concern and admittedly I should’ve been more sympathatic towards people who shared this view.

However, I still believe that US is clearly having a hard time securing events within their country and I very much believe that such worldwide organizations should re-allocate their efforts to different places either in the same continent or outside their comfort zone. Why this is a solution and is a counter argument against making political statements? Because political statements are meaningless words on a sheet that doesn’t really mean anything unless they’re followed by harsh actions which, in this case, are relocation of their future endeavor to less popular but capable enough places to hold an event.

That’s how inclusivity and diversity works. — I’m not saying that any of the similar organizations are not inclusive or diverse enough, but political statements are pretentious crap that accomplishes absolutely nothing. Which is the primary problem with modern left wing in the west.

Unlike Miguel de Icaza, I won’t use “Free Software and its opinions :)” argument like a complete hack. Any Free Software Organization may or may not have an opinion about various elements around them. It would be very stupid of us to assume these organizations and especially the projects come to life without a world view. Free Software itself is a world view, whether we say we believe in this and do the exact opposite with our business at times.

No, neither Gnome nor any organization similar to them have been actively criticizing any other countries especially which they’ve been operating in and have held a meetup in, for their anti-inclusive, anti-diverse and let’s be real, flat-out fascist policies. This isn’t a common practice given to their previous statements throughout the years. And this is exactly why this whole thing sounds unsurprisingly pretentious, one-sided when it comes to inclusivity and a total hypocrisy when we consider both US being the primary target for events while having two countries as neighbors and talking about inclusivity and diversity only when it comes to United States of America. (or other first world countries; West in general)

Again, is it a bad thing? No. Fight for it. It’s a good cause. But don’t act like as if this matters in my world. Because you don’t care about our problems at all.

However, when you hear threatening, childish lines like “Free Software was always a Social Justice movement, if you don’t like it there’s the door!” or learning about you being a hypocrite for following people you disagreed on one, single thing. How about misinterpretation of your own argument in order to simplify the premises for ease of creating a fallacy?

This is called Tribalism. This rabid community we have turned into is not Inclusive nor it is Welcoming when it comes to disagreements; to have a discussion. These people are so obsessed with such ideals, me not understanding the ever-ending discussions about “my distro’s Desktop Environment and/or Display Server or my favourite text editor beats yours” mentality is really obvious now. Scary. Either such projects attract such toxicity for some reason or there’s something horribly wrong with our generation and the way our perception works.

Regardless, it’s not an injury I alone can treat or we can just ignore but we all may try to triage. This is a separate story and it’s a different problem. It’s not pretentious as it is geniunely destructive in nature, these Tribalist ideals and these dismissive practices. They push a clear narrative, knowingly, consciously and deliberately. These people do not care about the piece of software or the ideas they’ve been non-stop spamming of but their own ego for the sake of being a part of a movement.

And if your think you only see this in Gnome Community, you don’t know what a fool you are. Besides the last picture is from a known cesspool with a wiki full of fallacies. They don’t care about Free Software or Gnome, they’re just there because someone alerted them about a possible Social Justice debate, that which did not exist.

There were Social Justice mentions only from people who self-titled Social Justice Advocates. — and yes, it’s called Provocation.

Why else would they bring it up? That’s up to you.

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