Re: no to war in Ukraine

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 11:19 PM
> From: "Alexandre Garreau" <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: no to war in Ukraine
>
> Le dimanĉo, 27-a de februaro 2022 10-a horo kaj 51:49 CET, vous avez écrit :
> > ----- Christopher Dimech
> > Administrator General - Naiad Informatics - Gnu Project
> > 
> > Society has become too quick to pass judgement
> 
> why do you do that yourself here after then????
>  
> > > > The GNU project doesn't have any political opinions aside from that
> > > > of
> > > > the free software movement.  I hope that includes not taking sides
> > > > on
> > > > the conflict in the Ukraine, or otherwise I will not be able to
> > > > continue working on Emacs.
> > > 
> > > Why require so hardly such neutrality? I mean other projects did so by
> > > the past
> >
> > The Chinese Communist Party is avoiding criticizing Russia's invasion of
> > Ukraine.  It is therefore unsurprising to encounter such propaganda
> > here.
> 
> What does this have to do at all with china? I don’t like how you are linking 
> Po Lu with that 
> while he have shown to be greatly committed to the values of freedom, more 
> than many 
> ppl here.

His point was about not taking sides.  Which means not criticising the russian 
state. 
 
> Linking ppl opinions’ with their nationality is already what is fueling both 
> russia’s 
> aggression and the oppression of russians by both putin and the now mislead 
> and hypocrit 
> rest of the world, please don’t further that and what you were criticizing 
> yourself

Was commenting on his employers as his motivation was employer related.  
 
> > Society has become too quick to pass judgement and declare someone
> > Persona Non-Grata, the most extreme form of censure a country can
> > bestow.
> > 
> > In a new era of destructive authoritarianism, I support Richard
> > Stallman.  Times of great crisis are also times of great
> > opportunity.  I call upon you to make this struggle yours as well !
> > 
> > https://stallmansupport.org/
> > https://www.fsf.org/     https://www.gnu.org/
> 
> this is totally unrelated, and eastern people, among which undistinguishedly 
> chineses, 
> russians and ukrainians, were the one showing most support.

Correct.  Have not said anything against any of those people.