So one random person makes some weird and illogical comment (over pull requests?) and "us hackers" need to "eject the SJWs"?
Maybe just ignore the comment? This sounds more like a troll post than any legitimate concern. Even if there is a sincere person writing this, why feel the need to respond to it so vehemently? This is some lizard brain shit-stirring to the max.
Outrage to combat outrage? Try indifference. If you don't like "social justice" then don't care so much about social justice.
>Recently I blogged a safety warning that according to a source I consider reliable, a “women in tech” pressure group has made multiple efforts to set Linus Torvalds up for a sexual assault accusation.
I'm not going to address this at all, since as far as I can tell this is just rumour and scare mongering, I'm not sure the merit in talking about it.
>I’m not going to analyze SJW ideology here except to point out, again, why the hacker culture must consider anyone who holds it an enemy.
To advocate for considering an ideology as your enemy without defining it, talking reasonably about what it advocates or who supports it, seems like a bad idea.
I actually think the tenets of meritocracy isn't incompatible with social justice to a certain extent. The problem emerges where proxies for merit are used. For example, SV hedge funds keep throwing money at 20 year old Harvard drop outs not because they have merit, but because they look like Zuck. Yet every one of them will tell you about how much of a meritocracy SV is. Again, when you look at any online community the position of a contributor is often more important than the merit of their contribution (I'm looking at you, Wikipedia, Stack Exchange).
A valid point in the social justice movement is that often the people talking about meritocracy only have a meritocracy within the very homogenous in group that has traditionally dominated technology- young, male, often libertarians, often with very limited social skills. Which is why open source projects often have arseholes contributing - because they don't see merit in being able to work with others, but they do find merit in very stridently arguing your point.
It seems that despite proclaiming a fetish for meritocracy, this blogger seems to be advocating not to apply a meritocratic approach to complaints about the community he works in. The problem I see with this is that the hacker culture simply isn't as inclusive or meritocratic as it claims, and there are real structural issues that have emerged over time repeatedly. Yes, there are idiots who know nothing about actual hackers that make unwarranted complaints, but if we're not dismissing those complaints because they have no merit, then are we really being meritocratic in the first place.
So often I come back to the same thing which is that people seem to think that telling me you value something is the same thing as valuing it. You can say your community is meritocratic until you're blue in the face, but that doesn't necessarily make it so, and if you're unwilling to actually engage with criticism then it doesn't make your protestations very convincing.
Maybe just ignore the comment? This sounds more like a troll post than any legitimate concern. Even if there is a sincere person writing this, why feel the need to respond to it so vehemently? This is some lizard brain shit-stirring to the max.
Outrage to combat outrage? Try indifference. If you don't like "social justice" then don't care so much about social justice.