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tom66:
I don't support Trump.  I despise him in fact.  I think he is one of the worst US presidents in recent memory, and his incompetence has impacts across the globe.  I think his supporters wearing 'MAGA' hats are fools.

However I will fight to the end to defend someone wearing a MAGA hat if that is what they choose to do so.  It is fair game to criticise them, to challenge them, but it is their right, and a 'MAGA' hat is not and should not be offensive speech.

krish2487:

--- Quote from: jukk on August 28, 2020, 08:06:50 am ---I'm definitely not worried about the so called SJW group starting sending such vans. Is there any real evidence for that? The accusations about "SJW", "commies" etc. seem to come from people having a political view that somehow neatly fits into the views of the MAGA people where you are allowed to look down on "foreign" people, people of different color etc. Many of the MAGA people have made very clear that they do not accept all people as equal human beings. So is it so surprising that people with such extreme political views could be banned from such events? And latest developments indicate that it is this group of people that are most likely to start sending those black vans during night. Indeed the last days there have been openly expressed views about justifying murder of what they call "commies" or whatever term they make up. That is much more worrying right now.


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Isnt the banning of the individual a metaphorical black van? just because they(the SJW) do not align with the banned individuals political views?
MAGA supporters (extremists and others) might have expressed any opinion of theirs. It is their right to express it. and yours to disagree with it.
What is not acceptable, as others have pointed out, is to enforce an arbitrary set of rules owing to a political difference of opinion. You said it yourself, it is frowned upon to talk politics at workplace. What should have been done is
1. Not give a damn about political affiliations in a unrelated technical event.
2. If the LF felt the need to do so, do ask the individual to be a little aware of bringing political views to a technical event, but discreetly and privately.
In any case, banning the individual is a big no no.

Say I dont agree with what you hold as views on this forum. Does that mean I can make a public complaint about it in a thread and the mods take action by banning you publicly and make a statement in the thread? How is it even relevant to electronics? And why should your political views be the cause of such explusion for you?

Do you see where I am going with this?

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Stray Electron on August 27, 2020, 09:13:29 pm ---  I agree with Robert Martin's letter, The Linux Foundation had no business responding to a public complaint or in responding to it publicly and in both cases, they themselves committed violations of their own Code of Conduct.  I also don't see how the victim, Mr Wood, committed any violation of the Code of Conduct by wearing a MAGA hat. 
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The US has gone batshit crazy.
Or to be more correct, Joe Public is just now so scared to just tell some complainer to piss off, and not to bring politics into somewhere it doesn't belong, that it's causing everyone to cave in every time someone complains about something.
It's not that other countries aren't going the same way, but it seems to have hit peak stupidity in the US.
Pictured wearing a MAGA hat? That was enough to get someone barred from a conference? What a ridiculous state of affairs.

JohanH:

--- Quote from: krish2487 on August 28, 2020, 08:27:46 am ---Do you see where I am going with this?

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I see your point.


--- Quote from: krish2487 on August 28, 2020, 08:27:46 am ---Isnt the banning of the individual a metaphorical black van? just because they(the SJW) do not align with the banned individuals political views?
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The problem is, like EEVBlog said, the US is going batshit crazy. And this on many fronts. I can't tell who started it, but the so called "SJW" group's reactions (if they can be called a group; there is no such organization) are definitely triggered by the hostility and agenda of the extreme right in the US. In fact on the extreme right this is not metaphorical anymore. You can't just blame one side, it all belongs together whether we want it or not.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: jukk on August 28, 2020, 08:48:00 am ---The problem is, like EEVBlog said, the US is going batshit crazy. And this on many fronts. I can't tell who started it, but the so called "SJW" group's reactions (if they can be called a group; there is no such organization) are definitely triggered by the hostility and agenda of the extreme right in the US. In fact on the extreme right this is not metaphorical anymore. You can't just blame one side, it all belongs together whether we want it or not.
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The thing I don't get with the extreme hatred for Trump supporters is that it's practically half of the country.
Really, you are going to hate and fight with half the country? Geeze, chill out.

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