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Title of the (concerning) thread on their community forum, not voluntary clickbait. Came across the thread thanks to a toot by @Khrys@mamot.fr (French speaking)

The gist of the issue raised by OP is that framework sponsors and promotes projects lead by known toxic and racists people (DHH among them).

I agree with the point made by the OP :

The “big tent” argument works fine if everyone plays by some basic civil rules of understanding. Stuff like code of conducts, moderation, anti-racism, surely those things we agree on? A big tent won’t work if you let in people that want to exterminate the others.

I'm disappointed in framework's answer so far

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would recommend actually talking with (I forget the fancy term) medical philosophers.

Yes, a LOT of modern medicine was created on the backs of torture and vile human experimentation. But a shockingly small amount of the data collected by Nazis et al were actually useful because so much of it was compromised by virtue of the "control" in those experiments generally being a torture victim who was in five other experiments in the past month. And a lot of said innovations boil down to "We all kind of suspected it but couldn't think of an ethical way to confirm it"

But the key thing to understand: There is a big difference between "Okay... that was REALLY fucking evil but Unit 731 created a lot of data we can sift through and it already exists..." and "Okay, hear me out. We COULD send in Seal Team Eight... or we could wait a few weeks to see if they make a better smallpox first"

And that is the thing here. I am 100% for taking advantage of what has already been done in the world of software development... although rewrites are a thing for a reason. But I am firmly opposed to funding or supporting ongoing work by those chuds. They should be ostracized and vilified at every turn.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I would recommend actually talking with (I forget the fancy term) medical philosophers.

"Ethicist" maybe?