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Look, it's the guy's own personal twitter account. He can say what he wants. And he's put his own work into an open source project, voluntarily.

Despite what many seem to think, there is no "universally agreed" morals and views. So if you want to oust people you disagree with, don't be surprised when others oust you.

Or better yet, we'd all be better off if we all just learn to work peaceably with people we disagree with.

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> Look, it's the guy's own personal twitter account. He can say what he wants. And he's put his own work into an open source project, voluntarily.

He's promoting Opal on that same Twitter account, though. A parallel: It's like saying he can bully someone outside of class, and that as long as he sits nice and quiet in class, the school shouldn't do anything about it.

Quite frankly, I think the Internet got to his head.

> Despite what many seem to think, there is no "universally agreed" morals and views. So if you want to oust people you disagree with, don't be surprised when others oust you.

True, but his statement was a soft-core version of hate speech.

> Or better yet, we'd all be better off if we all just learn to work peaceably with people we disagree with.

He didn't simply disagree, though. He's being outright offensive about it: "not accepting reality is the problem here," and "anyway it's months that in Italy school after school sneaks genderism lessons in without parents consent. Not cool," yes okay, let's not educate people, because that's well cool, innit blad.

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Being offended is not the same as being bullied.

School bullies are effective because their victims can't simply choose to not interact with them.

That's not the case here. Unless you're an actual contributor and the offensive behavior crosses over.

But realistically, this mob was never going to contribute anything anyways. The truth of most OSS projects (IME) is that they're driven by a handful of people at most. Sacrificing one of those over empty threats of nonexistent meaningful contributions is the wrong move 100% of the time.

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> He's promoting Opal on that same Twitter account, though.

So? It's his personal twitter account. He can do what he wants with it. He can say the Surface Book is great, or Opal is great, or Opal sucks. That doesn't make anything he says there into an official endorsement or opinion of the Opal project.

> A parallel: It's like saying he can bully someone outside of class, and that as long as he sits nice and quiet in class, the school shouldn't do anything about it.

The difference is that bullying is actually against rules. Expressing your views on something controversial like this is perfectly allowed due to freedom of speech.

> True, but his statement was a soft-core version of hate speech.

For one specific definition of hate-speech, sure. But not one that's universally agreed upon. In other words, that's like, your opinion, man.