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> Are there any examples of this happening in a prominent open source project?

Open Source Initiative itself expelled Eric S. Raymond (a founding member) from their mailing list

ESR didn't get cancelled for microaggressions. It was because he has a long history of being utterly vile towards black people and women, amongst other very much not "just a microaggression" behaviors.

Whenever I hear this sort of second hand and third hand information, I assume it's a wild exaggeration, amplified through a whisper network.

If there is something concrete to point to, with evidence, people do. In the absence of that, I assume it's just malicious gossip.

Hasn't failed me yet.

I mean, have you bothered to look? It's not a secret nor in private.

Defending eugenics in the comments: https://web.archive.org/web/20210419141913/http://esr.ibibli...

Claiming black people have a lower IQ than everyone else (in an argument that black people shouldn't own guns as a result): https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/816449724127608833

Claims LGBT people are making it up: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/769730601872044032/photo/1

Lots of racist comments: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/780839196231630848/photo/1

This is what I could find in less than 5 minutes of searching - the receipts are there, it is not "a wild exaggeration"

Huh. Nothing there is overt, it all hides behind some questionable statistics, but it definitely makes me not want to have a beer with the guy.

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