I ♥ Free Software – Valentine’s Day 2016 – FSFE

I love Free Software

Valentine’s Day is the day to show our love for Free Software, and for the people who give it to us.

Free Software drives a huge number of devices in our everyday life. It ensures our freedom, our security, civil rights, and privacy. It enables everyone to participate in a fair society. But as with people, everybody has different reasons to love Free Software. Let’s show this variety to the world!

I love Free Software.  Pass it on.

Source: I ♥ Free Software – Valentine’s Day 2016 – FSFE

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More Political Correctness

Scenes From a Multiverse - by Jonathan Rosenberg

Scenes From a Multiverse – by Jonathan Rosenberg

More political correctness. It must be in the air or something. Like the last one, this one is from another web cartoon — Scenes From a Multiverse.

Again, go see the whole cartoon. It’s good.

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Political Correctness

Wondermark - An Illustrated Jocularity - by David Malki

Wondermark – An Illustrated Jocularity – by David Malki

I have little patience for political correctness. Whether it’s the phrase itself or the people who use it, my patience evaporates immediately. Political correctness was invented for the purpose of mockery. The only people who sincerely use the phrase are the ones who are opposed to it. They seem to think that if they accuse others of political correctness, then they are free to be rude. Like garlic for vampires, they think it will save them from that dreadful condition of having to be considerate. Beyond the merely cynical motive of stifling conversation, some of them actually believe that saying it rehabilitates them. It is a mantra for bigots.

I regret the exhaustion of my patience, because it means that I can’t enjoy the times that the phrase is used ironically, or in satire. The overuse of it by moral shirkers has ruined it for me. Political correctness has been ruined by the very people who invented it.

Go and see the full Wondermark cartoon. It’s good.

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