<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Christian Siefkes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christian@siefkes.net">christian@siefkes.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Michel Bauwens wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Christian Siefkes <<a href="mailto:christian@siefkes.net">christian@siefkes.net</a>>wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">>> > Would you work with the Ku Klux Klan if it could help foster your goals?<br>
>> > Where do you draw the line?<br>
><br>
> good question, I would draw the line with explicitely 'anti-p2p' forces<br>
> such as racism, genderism, etc ..<br>
<br>
</div>Yes, that sounds reasonable. Peer production requires treating others as<br>
your peers, as equals, and anybody with racist, homophobic, sexist,<br>
anti-semitic views won't be able to do that, hence their participation is<br>
likely do to more bad than good.<br>
<br>
Anti-abortion is about denying women's right over their own bodies (while,<br>
of course, men's rights over their bodies are never put in doubt), hence it<br>
is equally 'anti-p2p'.<br></blockquote><div><br><br>well, the last thing is a bit more problematic for me, I see this as an ethical opinion; for example, I have worked and communicated with catholic distributists, who are very egalitarian (support distributing proprety, catholic worker movement, live in collectives without property etc ..) but find abortion objectionable because of their egalitarianism .. of course, I disagree with this,� but I find it has little practical importance in the cooperation<br>
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<div class="im"><br>
> a question for you: if you are working on a piece of free software, and you<br>
> discover your co-developer is KKK, would you stop working with her?<br>
><br>
> these are by no means easy questions, FLOSS is full of libertarians, whose<br>
> values I object to ...<br>
<br>
</div>I know. Eric Raymond's pro-gun standpoint and some of his possible<br>
more-or-less racists sayings haven't stopped me from quoting his insights<br>
about free software. </blockquote><div><br>they are also majorly wrong in the bazaar/cathedral metaphor <g>; the cathedrals were very participatory and distributed efforts involving the whole population ..<br><br>�</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Some time ago I discovered that the author of a little<br>
piece of free software I'm using has shockingly right-wing views:<br>
<a href="http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/enemies/" target="_blank">http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/enemies/</a> . That didn't stop me from using<br>
his software, nor from contributing a little patch back to him, of course.<br>
<br>
So I don't think people having personal views contrary to my own is a<br>
problem as long as it doesn't hinder cooperation in a project. But on the<br>
other hand I would think it very wrong to invite people with such<br>
standpoints precisely *because of* their standpoints -- which is what<br>
anybody who talks about "building an alliance with the Tea Party" is<br>
proposing to do.<br></blockquote><div><br>I agree, I would oppose any formal cooperation with tea party organisations, they are a very dangerous, fascism-inducing political force; but a few people call themselves that way and are pro-open source libertarians; they should disown the label instead of claiming that they are the true TP'ers and all the others are fake.<br>
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<br>
And, of course, if (say) an openly racist person's participation in a<br>
project would cause black people to leave to product, or discourage them<br>
from joining it, since they could feel no longer welcome, then it would be<br>
the racist who would have to leave so as to correct the situation. I hope we<br>
agree on that?<br></blockquote><div><br>yes<br><br>�<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
> what do you think of nader's alliance with ron paul, around the 3<br>
> priorities of ending the war, ending the war on drugs and 3 ??<br>
<br>
</div>"and 3"? Ending wars, and ending the war on drugs are fine goals, and it<br>
seems to me that Ron Paul is by far not the worst of the Tea Party--near<br>
candidates currently running. Nevertheless I suppose that such alliances<br>
will ultimately do more bad than good, since they will increase acceptance<br>
for causes that are anti-emancipatory and 'anti-p2p'.<br></blockquote><div><br><br>ron paul also has quite terrible positions on civil rights and the like; I'm not sure if nader is correct is doing such an alliance, though I respect Nader a lot; I think ows has a better position, by eschewing formal political alliances altogether, and seeking broad commonality on a few key goals <br>
<br>at least for the time being ... if time, circumstances and maturation require much more radical steps, even such commonality may become strained<br><br>Michel<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
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