Despite all the grand statements about the Code of Conduct, Respect and Diversity, the Debian people are highly intolerant.
It has always been this way and there is plenty of evidence.
Consider 2006, the violent expulsion of Ted Walther from DebConf6 dinner in Mexico. Somebody started a rumor that his dinner guest was a prostitute. Nobody checked the facts. People physically pushed him out the door and nearly threw him down the steps.
Evidence: debian-private leaks about the DebConf6 assault
Instead of spending $120,000 on lawyers, they could have simply apologized to my family for violating our privacy. But they are paying all this money to rewrite history. They are paying the lawers all this money to insist that the petty little word choice issues that their small minds are preoccupied with are more significant than things like the death of my father.
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