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2 months agoThat’s probably a good choice, since it makes a perfect response to “politics shouldn’t matter, here, just merit.” Turns out…
John Colagioia
Hi, I work on a variety of things, most of which I talk about more on my blog than on social media. Here, you’ll probably find me talking mostly talking about Free Culture works and sometimes technology.
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I agree that creating is inherently political, because politics pervades creation whether we choose the politics or not, but that’s not a useful argument after somebody says “it doesn’t matter to me.” If you want to get into that shouting match, it’s your time to waste.
My point is that, behind the garbage philosophy, we also now know that it’s garbage technology, so all these people telling us about their utopian meritocracy where we just ignore bigotry are exposed as full of it. Cloudflare, Framework, and so forth, are not only OK with Great Replacement rhetoric, but also incapable of telling solid software from broken, and that’s a stronger indictment than just trying to drag the conversation back to the bigotry.