users are harassing a trans person in the freedesktop organization for banning a well known bad actor from contributing, the guy who made hyprland, who encourages and participates in queerphobic harassment, especially against trans people

It’s especially infuriating because previously people had reasonable discussions on /r/linux about how ridiculously shitty this guy is, but now pretend as if the accusations are completely unfounded, or pretend it doesn’t matter (the usual defense is “it’s his personal Discord, how can you ban him for stuff he does there??”), along with the usual complaints about “ideology infiltrating Linux” (this is especially hilarious seeing how many of these people also worship Richard Stallman), as well as the typical redditor idea that rules lawyering is perfectly valid because “debate” and any use of common sense moderation is “power tripping”

But all he has to do is say “Red Hat Bad!!” (this isn’t even a Red Hat thing really) and write a few one-sided blog posts directly naming and shaming and everyone goes nuts

Words can’t describe how upset I am at this situation, people like this are the absolute lowest scum of the Linux and free software community

Do you think they even realize how many of the people who write the software they rely on are queer 🤔

Edit: Feel a little more hopeful finding out that another thread was posted where people are far more reasonable, making it pretty clear that the thread I’m talking about isn’t really the usual community response and is actually just brigading by the asshole’s groupies