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We could never know how it really went in theory, personally after various experiences I can firmly say that there are toxic people in almost all communities.
Yes there are, but I think the worst are political types who thrive in the shadows, hiding behind good decorum. I think the current climate of feigning offence tunes technical organisations so that the best manipulators of people rise to the top rather than the best technologists. But that might be my own personal bias speaking.
But I think I found one of the websites they're talking about. https://debian.community/ - it seems to be filled with hit pieces against the Debian team, accusing them of all sorts of ills.
As a site it is quite threatening in fact, it also reports current things that are pure fake news 🥲
It looks like someone who has an axe to grind and is picking apart everything that the Debian team do and showing it in the worst possible light, in a conspiratorial finger-poking style.
Are there actually threats on there? Corruption, threats and blackmail seem to be the site's main allegations, so I wouldn't expect it to contain threats as that'd be hypocritical.