to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >I'd be careful in that: Debian's user (and contributor) base has >expanded a lot since Day Zero (or well, I've been looking at it >since Day One or so). Nowadays there are probably believing Muslims >or national Chinese around, who may be hurt by things "we", >steeped in white male western culture we may not even see. So the >ability to listen, to overcome the "nah, that ain't so bad" first >reaction becomes ever more important. I have been around long enough to remember when in 2004 a very prominent developer of Chinese origins hurriedly left the project when the d-i (?) team refused to mention Taiwan in the way he preferred. So, there is not much that we have not already seen...
I am late to this thread, so I will just say that: - I appreciate a lot of what Branden and Sam wrote here - people complaining about "cancel culture" are often idiots - I have other fights to deal with - the outcome is sad -- ciao, Marco