Linus Torvalds -- Creator of Linux -- defends gun regulation, woke communists, womens rights AND trans rights. Linux is political!

juergen@feddit.de to Linux@lemmy.ml – 93 points –

Linus' thread: (CW: bigotry and racism in the comments) https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm (you need to scroll down, i can't seem to link to the comment in the screenshot)

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comrade linus 🫡🫡

but also he’s finnish, which is communist, so he’s obviously a communist smh 🤷‍♀️

  1. He's not Finnish, he's a Swede from Finland. Please attribute the nationality correctly.
  2. He's not defending communists. He just points out that 'woke' is a word used in a spiritual context, which doesn't make sense with communism. The header of this thread is a clickbait. Read the article again.

EDIT: He's actually a Swedish-speaking Finnish guy, mea culpa.

  1. Finns are arch enemies of communists. Show a finnish guy a hammer and sickle, and he'll ... you.

I might add that Linus' father Nils Torvalds was a card carrying member of the Finnish Communist Party in the 1970s.

I don't know if you joke or not, but thinking finnish = communist is too far away from any truth. I lived and still live in an ex-communist country and let me tell you: nothing Linus says or does is communist in any way. Socialist? Maybe! But that's a different discussion.