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But either yours is a subtle attempt at satire, or whatever you have listed here is not fearless self-expression and progressive thought, but just newspeak and dystopian conformism. Whatever this is, it is not freedom of thought and expression.
I will fight against any racist and any bigot. Whether they argue against anyone's right of self-expression and identity, or whether they impose their opinion and self-identity upon others.
I assume this to be a minority opinion, but since we're talking about hacker culture, let me argue in favour of the true hacker spirit: the one where only code and curiosity counts, not bloody politics and rules. That ain't no hacker culture, sorry. We used to bond through beautiful code and cheeky pseudonyms, not through flags and political affiliations. Hackers used to despise politics, code of conducts and hierarchy.
In true anti-conformist spirit let me say: fuck that shit. Get your politics and slogans out of my computer. I only wanna hear about your code.
There was never a compatibility issue with cointerculture and hacking because in all reality machines give 0 shits about who you are. its all syntax, and if you're technically correct thats all that matters!
They way you're looking at this is more inline with political rhetoric than a hacker my friend.
Allison Parrish did a great job of deconstructing the idea of hacker culture as an idyllic metritocracy independent of politics or bias, exposing its more problematic elements, and proposing an alternative value system: http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting...
A makeshift culture built mainly around documents pilfered from dumosters and why not? Doesnt really sound like living off the fat of the mil-industry complex when that same institution was arresting and booking the protohackers without serious reason or cause.
> As a C̶i̶s̶h̶e̶t̶ jew you will probably also have to listen more than talk when it comes to political, ethical, or policy topics within the community
- said Hitler probablyCurrent practice in community building, especially in tech, is to prioritize the safety of the marginalized over the comfort of the privileged.