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spinoza1111
The trashing of personalities including Jacob Navia and Herb Schildt
here must stop.
The practice of "trashing" a person dates from certain feminist covens
and religious cults of the 1970s, and from "struggle sessions" in the
Chinese cultural revolution. For its origins in "acid fascism" of the
1970s, cf
http://www.amazon.com/Mindfuckers-F...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252842643&sr=8-1,
while Jung Chang's Wild Swans and biography of Mao describes practises
in the Cultural Revolution.
Prior to the 1970s and 1960s, "trashing" also has sources in
McCarthyism and the Stalinist "show trials" of the 1930s.
In "trashing", the group turns upon a person (Sandy Bull, the musician
and member of the Mel Lyman family, Jung Chang's parents, the
Rosenbergs, the Old Bolshevists) and accuses them of responsibility
for group failings: the failure of the commune's crops, the theft of
the atom bomb, the failure of Mao's or Stalin's Five Year Plans, or
the latter day mess that is the C programming language.
Trashing takes place in a climate of fear: the fear of drug busts in
1970s communes, of male power in feminism, of the West in Mao's China,
and here, of the inordinate amount of power corporations have over the
worklives of C programmers. We're seeing that corporations will
marshal paid thugs and fools at "town meetings" in order to keep
"single payer" and "public option" off the table, since US health
insurance makes people overdependent on corporate jobs, including jobs
as C programmers. Afraid of being marked down on the job as anything
less than perfectly competent all the time by companies whose PR firms
represent the firm as necessarily perfect, people "act out" by lashing
out at Navia and Schildt in the most extreme ways.
In "trashing", as opposed to procedure in a court of law in a society
under rule of law, the testimony given by the victim is admissable as
physical evidence of guilt. Note that in a decent courtroom, the
attention of the jury is directed by the judge to the facts, the law,
and the crime as charged, and it is the jury's duty to ignore the
accused's testimony, in most cases, when it seems to be evidence of
guilt, unless the accused changes his plea. This right, which is
withheld in "trashing", appears in the US Bill of Rights as "nor shall
be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself".
But Navia's words are forever here being used against him!
In "trashing", sticking up for the victim becomes transitively risky
for in an effort to rid itself of guilt, the community reasons that
anyone who defends the victim must be a perpetrator.
"Trashing" is legal regression which is used by Fascists to secure
their power.
It needs to stop. It is possible to discuss programming by referring
to ideas and by posting anonymous code snippets one wishes to
critique. Entirely too many half-educated and illiterate CREEPS come
in here, read about the villain du jour, and immediately start
attacking that person in unrestrained ways, as does Mr Rosenau. Others
create confusion by parsing what they've said systematically to always
be right, and by saying things which enable the thugs. Others call
people "trolls" and claim to "killfile" them while making continuous
remarks about them to third parties which also constitute enabling.
No, this post is not about the broken and dysfunctional language C.
But C is less important than human beings and man is the measure of
all things, not code.
here must stop.
The practice of "trashing" a person dates from certain feminist covens
and religious cults of the 1970s, and from "struggle sessions" in the
Chinese cultural revolution. For its origins in "acid fascism" of the
1970s, cf
http://www.amazon.com/Mindfuckers-F...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252842643&sr=8-1,
while Jung Chang's Wild Swans and biography of Mao describes practises
in the Cultural Revolution.
Prior to the 1970s and 1960s, "trashing" also has sources in
McCarthyism and the Stalinist "show trials" of the 1930s.
In "trashing", the group turns upon a person (Sandy Bull, the musician
and member of the Mel Lyman family, Jung Chang's parents, the
Rosenbergs, the Old Bolshevists) and accuses them of responsibility
for group failings: the failure of the commune's crops, the theft of
the atom bomb, the failure of Mao's or Stalin's Five Year Plans, or
the latter day mess that is the C programming language.
Trashing takes place in a climate of fear: the fear of drug busts in
1970s communes, of male power in feminism, of the West in Mao's China,
and here, of the inordinate amount of power corporations have over the
worklives of C programmers. We're seeing that corporations will
marshal paid thugs and fools at "town meetings" in order to keep
"single payer" and "public option" off the table, since US health
insurance makes people overdependent on corporate jobs, including jobs
as C programmers. Afraid of being marked down on the job as anything
less than perfectly competent all the time by companies whose PR firms
represent the firm as necessarily perfect, people "act out" by lashing
out at Navia and Schildt in the most extreme ways.
In "trashing", as opposed to procedure in a court of law in a society
under rule of law, the testimony given by the victim is admissable as
physical evidence of guilt. Note that in a decent courtroom, the
attention of the jury is directed by the judge to the facts, the law,
and the crime as charged, and it is the jury's duty to ignore the
accused's testimony, in most cases, when it seems to be evidence of
guilt, unless the accused changes his plea. This right, which is
withheld in "trashing", appears in the US Bill of Rights as "nor shall
be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself".
But Navia's words are forever here being used against him!
In "trashing", sticking up for the victim becomes transitively risky
for in an effort to rid itself of guilt, the community reasons that
anyone who defends the victim must be a perpetrator.
"Trashing" is legal regression which is used by Fascists to secure
their power.
It needs to stop. It is possible to discuss programming by referring
to ideas and by posting anonymous code snippets one wishes to
critique. Entirely too many half-educated and illiterate CREEPS come
in here, read about the villain du jour, and immediately start
attacking that person in unrestrained ways, as does Mr Rosenau. Others
create confusion by parsing what they've said systematically to always
be right, and by saying things which enable the thugs. Others call
people "trolls" and claim to "killfile" them while making continuous
remarks about them to third parties which also constitute enabling.
No, this post is not about the broken and dysfunctional language C.
But C is less important than human beings and man is the measure of
all things, not code.
