On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:37:23AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ansgar <ans...@debian.org> writes: > > > If you have 80-90%+ of parliament, from pretty much all parties, agree > > on something, then it *is* pretty much as uncontroversional as it gets > > there. > > This is an entertaining example to use in a project whose mission is free > software. I'm pretty sure that by that standard it's entirely > uncontroversial that Windows is the best operating system, that software > copyright has no social downsides, that software patents are a good thing, > and that proprietary software companies are a vital backbone of the > economy. > > I can assure you, as a US citizen, that the idea that BDS is inherently > antisemitic is very controversial in the US. Your beliefs about the > political consensus in my country are uninformed. Political consensus in > the US is not well-represented by voting ratios in Congress, particularly > in the absence of a lot of complex context. > > I will not try to tell you what the consensus is in Germany since I'm > obviously not qualified to do so.
The irony here is that he finds himself qualified to say that it's uncontroversial in Canada, and then he cites a source that starts like this: "Ontario’s legislature rejected the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement in a controversial vote..." This thread is so much wrong. Peace, -- Tiago