[EGreg]

I didn’t know Justine was trans. Her wikipedia article doesn’t mention it, and has another female middle name which suggests that her parents gave the names to her.

I am not much familiar with her work except the impressive Cosmopolitan / Redbean mentioned on HN in the past. But she seems to be quite a controversial figure that is for some weird technocracy and against democracy and leftists, despite being a leader in the zucotti park protests… in short, someone who is no stranger to drama and controversy, and actively courts it:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/01/occupying-...

[bestcoder69]

All true, stuff I didn’t like about her, but also ancient history (article is from 2014!)

And like I said, you can follow the links and see the brigade discussing something else entirely.

Personally I don’t want an OSS ecosystem that banishes trans people or people who had weird proto-alt-right politics pre-Trump. If you’re gonna banish anyone, banish the ones posing existential risks to projects by their brigading against contributors they don’t like.

[EGreg]

Yeah, I definitely prefer to be part of very inclusive and open OSS ecosystems, that do things in good faith.

I am not part of the YCombinator or West Coast ecosystem, but didn't it banish gay people with weird pro-alt-right politics pre-Trump, and then supported Trump? Like, for some reason there was a movement to banish Peter Thiel: https://mashable.com/article/peter-thiel-y-combinator

How do you feel about banishing people who simply admitted to voting for Proposition 8: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-mozilla...

If you take a look at a larger problem, you'll see that there is a lot of inconsistency with human welfare on a far larger scale.

Because this same system takes Saudi money a lot. The only moment of self-reflection came after one guy, Kashoggi, was killed: https://www.barrons.com/articles/saudi-arabia-tech-fundraisi...

But not the situation of millions of people in Yemen: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1113852 ... https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/01/andreessen-horowitz-is-now...

The US military industrial complex was largely involved in airstrikes on Yemen, as the Washington Post revealed last year: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20...

As a country, we ignore the Yemen war, and are told to only clutch pearls about taking money from Russia due to the Ukraine war. I imagine that YC stopped taking Yuri Milner's money a decade ago, partly because of his ties to the Kremlin, but probably it was just a natural parting of ways eventually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631084

Anyway, just saying ... ecosystems aren't always perfect.