[TimeBearingDown]

Between this and vaxry’s ouster from freedesktop because his project’s Discord allowed crude and tasteless speech years ago, I’m wondering how many more projects will fracture or make some of their discussion channels private. I believe Free Software will survive social media, but it’s deeply troubling how quickly people insist that they can’t possibly work with someone who has differing politics or worldview in general, or how many actually go and seek out a hill to die on for their tribe. It seems the best policy It reminds me of the old Emo Phillips joke about the Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council. You’ll find a reason to spurn anyone if you look closely enough, and it seems to fill a religion-shaped hole for some culture warriors. https://youtu.be/l3fAcxcxoZ8

[overfl0w]

This sketch is a gem, I liked it! It is absolutely correct - people can and will divide if this is their goal. Sadly this mass social disintegration on all levels affects negatively various free software products. I don't even hold any extreme political beliefs (I think) but nevertheless I avoid discussing any politics in any professional environment because it's just not the place for these types of discussions and it usually doesn't lead to anything constructive or positive. I never cared what my peers' political/religious beliefs were and through the years never had problems with any of them. It was a simple life - as long as all of us did our job the final products were of decent quality.

Perhaps some kind of a policy which would treat politics as off-topic and would discourage discussing it would be beneficial to such projects in the long run.