Is any attempt to get people to consider changing their behavior to be dismissed as censorship and ostracism? We should never be able to say to anyone "Hey, you're being a jerk. It would be better if you were less of a jerk."?
(Is this one of those ridiculous "If you're so into tolerance, why don't you tolerate my intolerance?" arguments?)
the post i was responding to said "Linus should be shunned into irrelevance". that's a fair bit different than simply asking someone to change their behavior.
And if he doesn't change his behaviour, which is increasingly deemed unacceptable, we should continue interacting with him and pretend it is acceptable?
(Is this one of those ridiculous "If you're so into tolerance, why don't you tolerate my intolerance?" arguments?)