Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called apolitical projects that treat marginalized contributors as political, and why a united boycott of complicit tech companies is our only way forward.
No, you think that because you’re mixing politics and engineering and you feel ‘yucky’ when using software written by someone you disagree with. I don’t.
If a fascist engineer designed a bridge and I walk on it am I supporting fascism? Am I giving visibility to it? Do I have to walk around and use a different bridge? You will probably say that yes, people using roads in New York support racism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses) but I disagree.
I can use software without giving money, likes, following its creator on social media, reposting his messages or otherwise promoting his ideas. His code running on my computer doesn’t provide any support to him, same as people driving under racist bridges don’t promote racism.
You missed the point and used a very bad analogy. The problem isn’t the software itself, but in the project around it. If the fascist built that bridge once then we never saw his face again, that wouldn’t be the issue. The problem is that we are funding the fascists to build the bridge, then funding them to make repairs in it, then funding him to let him work in other projects, until he gets strong enough that he gets a seat in the city council. So, by letting him to get what he wants we slowly let him to become a permanent thing in our society/ecosystem.