Comment by godelski | Hacker News Reader

Comment by godelski | Hacker News Reader

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  > If he wasn't talking about those folks, maybe he should have specified that rather than seemingly characterizing all criticism of GNOME accessibility as some sort of anti-GNOME conspiracy.

  | What do virtue-signalers and privileged people without disabilities sharing content about accessibility on Linux being trash have in common?

  | They don’t actually really care about the group they’re defending; they just exploit these victims’ unfortunate situation to either fuel hate against groups and projects actually trying to make the world a better place.

It reads to me like they're doing what you're asking. Their language separates "they" from "disabled people". Specifically with "the group they’re defending"

So let me get this right: It's okay for a blind person to write content about accessibility being trash, but it's not okay for a privileged person without disabilities to share that content.

I'm not sure how that's supposed to be a reasonable point of view. Keeping the problems nicely hidden from the larger community is not going to help anyone. Of course merely talking about a problem isn't going to solve it either, but it's more likely to lead to solutions in the long term.

I think that's a reasonable point of view to be interpreted if you read it reasonably

You've used reasonable twice, but haven't explained how it's reasonable.

You'll need to read it reasonably to get a reasonable response. But if there's a correct response with no room for disagreement then there's no conversation to be had. That's what I was saying: you read it unreasonably

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