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It's an appeal to hypocrisy. "But what about JavaScript!?", while completely ignoring the vast world of differences between what has became an essential web technology over the last 25 or so years (not always loved by everyone), versus a gimmicky web browser.
Ahh. I was referring to the whataboutism fallacy from the perspective of it's use to attack third world countries on claiming double standards. You're pointing out that me raising a potential double standard hurts my argument, which if you read that wikipedia article is in of itself, a fallacy. Whataboutism is a lame logical fallacy and by lame I mean it doesn't hold a lot of legitimacy in discourse.
You're going to great lengths to try to find some way to defend a piece of shit human being. You can stop at any time, but I'm sure you'll keep going. I hope you manage to find the bottom of the hole you're so vigorously trying to find, hopefully you'll find it before you realize how dumb you're presenting yourself as being.
Not really. You're acting quite emotional calling Brendan Eich a piece of shit human being without ever having read his arguments or listened to him speak. I believe you're apart of the "woke" mob, that piles on people before reading up on them and making your own judgement. Ie. You seem to be a victim of cancel culture. I have a good understanding of the issue and I'm enjoying pointing out the silliness of the arguments being presented in this thread that seem to be trying to invoke cancel culture on Mr. Eich. Wait till you find out that the lead developer of LibreOffice is a devout Christian that has different views than you and I. Or you know, 99% of the people outside of your american bubble with different cultural views than you. What goofs the Americans have become going through your weird zeitgeist.
His homophobia is very well documented and yes, with direct quotes of what he said. Do those not count as hearing his arguments?
Plenty of horrible people, from Trump to Hitler, had moments of making valid points in some areas, but none of those moments should detract from the fact that they are horrible people with horrible beliefs and actions.
Lol, mob? Not wanting to use a browser owned by homophobic counts as a mob? I've also never gotten the outrage with this thing called "cancel culture" with things like these. Are people not allowed to dislike known homophobic covid deniers?
You're moving the goalposts here. We're talking about using an open source browser or not because of the founder's personal religious views, not whether they are Hitler or Trump.
Yes mob, suggest looking up what it means in this context. And yes, cancel culture is a really really dangerous development in western civilization that threatens our ability to survive because it's focus is on distracting from class consciousness. Not sure why you're defending it if you're a socialist.
Do you judge a bridgemaker for his baking? Why is it OK for multinationals to not pay a living wage but we should attack a small business owner for not wanting to wax a pre-op trans woman's asshole and dick? This seems like an insane question but these are the boundaries the media have created. You're in BC I'm sure you remember that person.
Religious views are personal views. Hating non-Germans or non-Americans are also personal views. What's your point?
Merriam Webster says it means "a large and disorderly crowd of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action." When were we destroying or rioting? We don't have street rallies against the use of Brave either.
Unless you meant the informal definition, "a large number of people ", which means you're just trying to demonize the large number of people who dislike a homophobe by using that word. So is any movement to boycott anything a mob? Are vegans a mob? Nestle/BP/Amazon/Facebook haters? What about people campaigning for a ban on fossil fuels? What about the people who were against the Iraq or Vietnam Wars?
Because as not just a socialist but a person in the 21st century, I'm very much for human rights being given to people of the LGBTQ+ community?
I don't like the guy and therefore won't use his company's product, plain and simple. I have not harassed him or otherwise taken any action to harm him. I don't know of anyone, on or off this platform, who have done that either. I also dislike Musk and therefore Teslas aren't on my list of cars that I might buy. Am I not allowed to have those opinions because they're cancel culture?
You're too woke for me man. It's laborious to have discourse with your superficial interpretation of my arguments. A bunch of attempted gotcha's in bad faith means you're just trying to pick apart what I'm writing rather than the principles of the argument, so I'm not going to be able to convince you against cancel culture being problematic. When the pendulum swings against it and you start reading articles in CBC about it please remember your shallow uncritical thoughts here. ✌️