Comment by anonfordays
10 months ago
If comments as benign as "thin blue line" causes fragile entryist/activists to flee, I say Ted and the kernel team are doing the right thing. Projects as critical as the Linux kernel shouldn't be battlegrounds for the grievance of the week, nor should they be platforms for proselytizing. Marcan and others like him leave long paths of destruction in their wake. Lots of projects have been turned upsidedown by the drama they seem to bring with them everywhere. The salient point is contributors need to be more than "drive by" submitters for their pet projects. This isn't specific to Rust in the kernel, look at how much of an uphill battle bcachefs was/is.
I didn't even know what the whole issue with the "thin blue line" comment was until I read this thread. I was never under the impression "thin blue line" was about corruption or brutality, I think people are conflating "thin blue line" with "blue lives matter", which is an entirely different subject.
Quite wild to see this being downvoted, because by downvoting, surely one implies the inverse of your post to be the truth, such that projects such as the Linux kernel should be battlegrounds for the grievance of the week, should be platforms for proselytizing, and so forth.
Very strange to see little to no empathy for kernel maintainers in this situation.
Most people would not interpret downvoting as "I believe that the exact opposite of every single sentence in your post is true".
Most people don't compulsively downvote every post that they only mildly disagree with.
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