[kortilla]

> but silence is a form of opinion, of vote, of approval.

No it’s not. Indifference is not approval.

Open source is global and someone in a university in Argentina contributing some features does not “approve” of anything because she didn’t participate in some bickering about US identity politics.

[yxhuvud]

This is a lot more than just US identity politics, as shown by the fully idiotic take on London he did.

[zen928]

Indifference is acceptance of the status quo, though, yeah? Whether that be on a conscious level of active avoidance or on a subconscious level of never mentally aligning it as a priority to build further understanding to form a thought-out opinion.

There actually is a binary view on your stance against things when you see unfettered hate spread by others and choose (at some level) to not have an opinion. We've seen it before, we see it now, we'll see it again. Not everyone has the same privilege as you to remain head under sand until there's no commotion left to dodge.

[kortilla]

>Indifference is acceptance of the status quo, though, yeah?

No, the world does not revolve around your pet problems.

I do not know the regional politics of Bulgaria and if people started spewing Bulgarian politics in my open source community, my lack of participation is not acceptance of the status quo. I don’t even know what the status quo is and there are just two sides screeching at each other.