> The moment I made up my mind about this was reading the following words written by a maintainer within the kernel community:
> "we are the thin blue line"
> This isn't okay. This isn't creating an inclusive environment. This isn't okay with the current political situation especially in the US. A maintainer speaking those words can't be kept. No matter how important or critical or relevant they are. They need to be removed until they learn. Learn what those words mean for a lot of marginalized people. Learn about what horrors it evokes in their minds.
I opened the article relatively certain about the nature of the complaint.
100% confirmed.
Seriously? Really? It seems Herbst is the one that wants a non-inclusive environment (ie. exactly
conforming to his personal political preferences). Additionally this looks like an excuse as he was already admittedly burned out.
In any case, good luck to Herbst in his future endeavors, hopefully he can develop a thicker skin.
Consider that his position might be more profound than you considered it to be.
Mine is. It's about incentives.
Now you can take it from there, and at least in my interpretation the rest of your rebuttal falls apart.
There is absolutely no equivalency to slavery. That is simply dishonest. Slaves didn't choose to be slaves.
Do students who take on debt have no agency whatsoever to you?
Did the people who paid such debts had no agency when paying?