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What about the comments from metux/Enrico Weigelt? (https://web.archive.org/web/20190404153507/https://lists.dyn...)

He seems very comfortable repeating what is essentially the propaganda of Neonazi groups like PEGIDA.

I agree that we should be sceptical of extreme claims. Maybe it's a coincidence that they did their torchlit walk just after the Charlottesville march. Maybe it's just one of them who is willing to use Nazi references when naming his devices. Maybe it's just a weird fringe that posts Neonazi propaganda online. But the more these individual things come together, the more they build a picture, and the more it behoves us to take this picture seriously.



> What about the comments from metux/Enrico Weigelt?

Yep, that seems straightforwardly bad. Even so, I don't consider metux a suckless.org guy, but rather a deplorable person who contributes to multiple projects, one of which is hosted on suckless.org. The link you posted was from a Devuan mailing list.

Someone else used the example of Xfce, but suckless.org is a much more informal place that basically is a collection of separate projects with a similar aesthetic.

> But the more these individual things come together, the more they build a picture,

Sure, judgmments like yours are reasonable. I wouldn't begrudge someone choosing to avoid suckless over it, or even publicly voicing concern about the suckless community. But it's tiresome when every comment thread ostensibly about dwm, dmenu and st receives wild accusations of suckless.org being a community of nazis.

And I really think there's zero evidence of the torch walk being anything at all.


I think that's a fair point. I also don't like reading these sorts of threads, and I only got drawn into this one because I get very defensive about Dresden, and very fed up of neo-nazis trying to co-opt the city for their own ends.




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