William Shatner - still a man, calmly refuses to bend the knee -- Re: [openzfs/zfs] mentions to 'child gangs' in the source (#10554)

[Zenaan Harkness]

   ‘Star Trek’ actor William Shatner turned the tables and accused the Twitter activists of using the term “cis white male” as a slur to suppress his voice.

   Shatner has dedicated what appears to be a good portion of his weekend to pushing back against what he slammed as the “hubris of youth” after liberal critics took aim at him following an alleged case of “misgendering.” They also took serious issue with the 89-year-old actor’s suggestion that some people use “cis white male” in a derogatory manner to shut down dialogue with people they disagree with.

   Those facts didn’t appear to matter to Shatner’s critics, some of whom attempted to shut him down as an ignorant “cis white male.” When he pointed out that the word “cis” — which simply describes a person as identifying with the gender they were born as — was being used as a “slur” against him, all hell broke loose.

   “Imagine having all this anger because someone asked not to be labeled with a word that’s been used as a slur to him,” Shatner wrote in one tweet, responding to someone blasting him as a “transphobic sack of garbage.”

      Are they really ignorant? They know exactly what they are doing. Gaslighting a topic to change it to something else. That’s not ignorance.🤷🏼‍♂️😉 https://t.co/nXkYWNNv9s
      — William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) August 23, 2020

   “They eventually give up if you don’t play along,” Shatner finally said with a screenshot of yet another commenter telling him to “stay mad” before adding: “you’ll always be cis.”


      Is 'cis white male' a slur? William Shatner thinks so, triggering rage of woke Twitterati who used the term against him
      https://www.rt.com/usa/498838-william-shatner-cis-slur-trans-twitter/



[Nice work Mr Shatner :)  - reminds us of the older male elephants introduced into Safari parks which quickly transform/settle the group of young, erratic and destructive male elephants.]





On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 04:27:02PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> If everyone does just a little bit regularly, no more than you are able, this war shall in time dissipate from its present socio-political community sphere, into nothingness, no longer impacting us nor any longer relevant to almost anyone.
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> God speed fellow Souls,
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> Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2020 17:35:58 -0700
> Subject: Re: [openzfs/zfs] mentions to 'child gangs' in the source (#10554)
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> On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 09:16:00AM -0700, misterbigstuff wrote:
> > > (And yet, you used the _more_ triggering term "child gangs" in your subject line: this is disingenuous by you, and belies that within you is a hidden agenda, and an intention which you fail to disclose to us.)
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> > I wasn't triggered by it. an interviewer I was discussing it with, however, was. I still don't think (personally) that it's a huge deal, but it is here, open for discussion, if enough people want to change it.
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> > the rest of your comment is exactly what's not needed here. do you think all that questioning of ahrens' mental state is helpful? i think if _you_ were being genuine, you would have privately reached out to him instead of trying to insult him here in public. for what it's worth, you seem like you are doing a comedy session for your supporters that you think are going to come here and read, and give thumbs up and laugh with you. but it's not really funny, you're not funny.
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> It is primarily questioning of your mental state.
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> Perhaps you missed that part.
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> If you are triggered, and/or those you say you interviewed got triggered and you imply "they" won't contribute to OZFS because they are so triggered, perhaps you and this group of people you interview and who are not contributing to OZFS because they are so triggered, ought get professional help for your individual and collective, and evident (by your own words) mental issues.
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> So again, those questions are primarily, for you.  And it becomes evident that we need to add an additional question for you personally:
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>  - Since you failed to observe that the questions were directly aimed at you, and you missed this point, and instead you appear to present quite certainly that those questions were aimed exclusively at Matthew Ahrens, are you cognitively impaired?
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> That's a serious question: are you cognitively impaired?
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> On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 06:42:50PM -0700, misterbigstuff wrote:
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> > @ahrens @behlendorf doesn't ^ this kind of stuff fall under CoC as targeted harassment?
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> On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 06:48:07PM -0700, Alexander Motin wrote:
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> > @misterbigstuff, aren't you intentionally harassing this project and the people with your insinuations of something that never existed here before you?
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> [At this point, the thread has been locked, purportadly due to "personal attacks" ... go figure.]