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> Curious - why do people get offended by Torvalds?

Same reason why people get offended by replacing Git branch "master" to "main" or "blacklist" to "blocklist". No reasonable person particularly enjoys the increasing denigration of meritocracy and infiltration of woke neoracism into their sphere.

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Did you really have to shoehorn all that into a discussion about Torvalds's notoriously heated communication style and advertise some random left-criticism blog to boot?

If you can't connect all of this to the larger pattern of Woke propaganda in America, then I don't know what to tell you. Look up Christopher F. Rufo just for one example and how this propaganda is taking roots in schools and universities to brainwash the next generation of Americans.

Trying to tie this into every possible situation, no matter how tangentially related, seems a lot more like propaganda, brainwashing, and FUD than anything going on in this scenario.

Developers - many of whom are probably not "woke" - have been calling Torvalds a dick for decades.

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