Ian,
I didn't say your statement was racist, just that I didnt find it funny, that's
all. I gathered it was made as a joke, but just wanted to state my opposition
to racism, as russel requested, and leave it at that.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Clarke
To: devl@freenetproject.org
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2023 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: Racist statement of Ian Clarke on this list
Only a midwit idiot would think that remark was racist, particularly one who
brought racism into the conversation in the first place.
I thought it was funny, and that's all that matters. If you don't like it, I
suggest you touch grass.
I'm going to start blocking you idiots.
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 9:38 AM craig mcgee
<craig.mc...@guilt-management.org.uk> wrote:
I have to admit I was confused by the statement Ian made. Joke or not, it
wasn't funny.
but this is as far as I will go on the matter as I don't wish to get
involved in the freenet dispute.
----- Original Message -----
From: Russell Glenn
To: devl@freenetproject.org
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2023 3:33 PM
Subject: Racist statement of Ian Clarke on this list
Mr. Ian Clarke,
when discussing your acquisition of a secondary domain,
"freenet.org", for your highly controversial unilateral decision
to rewrite the Freenet Project which has always been hosted
on "freenetproject.org", you said the following:
> Yeah, all of the provocatively racist domain names were taken anyway.
Notice that this is a VERBATIM quote, and the email of yours did
not contain ANY other content, nothing to reduce the gravity of
this statement; the gravity of which cannot be reduced anyway.
Proof: https://www.mail-archive.com/devl@freenetproject.org/msg55336.html
As a black person, but not only as such, I inform you that racism
is NOT tolerable by any means whatsoever on this planet and will
NEVER be.
And before you attempt to dismiss this as a joke:
Millions of people died due to racism.
You, especially as a white person, are not entitled to joke about that.
Nobody is.
And this piles onto the provable falsehoods and other insults you have
produced on this list in the previous days.
Therefore, it is my duty to join the ranks of people who request
you to:
* immediately step down as leader of the Freenet Project and
* leave its board and
* transfer ownership of the domains to the Freenet developer team and
* transfer ownership of all other related accounts and
* cease to use the name "Freenet" for any of your new projects.
Racists, or those who joke about racism, do not belong into positions
where power is wielded.
As you have failed to prove that the board of the project is still
constructed of active members of the community,
and not of those who have been inactive for decades as Mr. Daigniere
stated,
I join those who request leadership is transferred to the
leading developer.
To my knowledge, this is Mr. Babenhauserheide.
Should he not accept the position, I would vouch for the previous lead
developer Mr. Dougherty, or anyone of the choice of the two.
Finally, I urgently implore anyone who reads this email to state
their support. We must stand united against racism.
- Russell Glenn
--
Ian Clarke
Founder, The Freenet Project
Email: i...@freenet.org
