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I think that coming from a country with a rich tradition of totalitarian brainwashing and political cleansing, we are more sensitive to hypocritical self-righteousness and virtue signalling.

According to messages on their Github, they theorize that Russian speaking individuals are less likely to fear for their careers, as a consequence of signing that letter, even if they otherwise support it.

I discovered the same thing. It seems literally a clash of 2 cultures.

Someone opened an issue about this, maybe you could take a look:

https://github.com/rms-support-letter/rms-support-letter.git...

Maybe you should talk to them and find out.

I think the dislike of cancel culture is stronger in Russia and Eastern Europe because it reminds people so much about Communism.

> I think the dislike of cancel culture is stronger in Russia

Because “cancel culture” is a propaganda boogeyman invented by (or at least, used on behalf of) the political faction in the US that has been somewhere between useful idiots for and actively collaborating with Russian propagandists for the last half-decade.