Well, perhaps it ought to be "black" people who get to say whether they feel offended by white/blacklist, and in that E. Kemokai's answer is very valuable. If we're doing this because someone is being hurt by some offending language, then +1. If we're doing this to "be on the right side", then -1 for me as this doesn't solve anyone's problem but our own fear of "being on the wrong side", and we can be much more effective as a community if we actually do something concrete against racism and other inequalities (off the top of my head: give a spotlight to minority Groovy developers on official channels, create sponsorship programs, etc.).
On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 08:41, Balachandran Sivakumar < balachand...@balachandran.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 2020-06-13 07:45, MG wrote: > > Believe me, I do so understand that - but as an atheist by choice from > > a young age, I do not want to live in a deeply irrational world, where > > everything you say can be considered racist or insensitive, even if > > that makes no sense whatsoever, just because somebody believes it to > > be that way. > > The problem we are trying to solve is "If something could be > offensive to even a small subset of people, let's try and avoid that as > much as possible". > > And being "sensitive" is about how a person "feels". Rationalism deals > with "thought" and cannot be used with feelings :) So, this initiative > is a good one by all of us in an attempt to ensure that even the most > sensitive person feels "welcome" and included. > > > The base of any free and just society for me needs to be reason and > > concensus, not any part dictating their perceived truth to the other. > > This is a very true statement that we all should keep in mind in > any community effort. And here, like always, Paul did ask for > comments/thought :) And I am in favour of the aliases and gradual > deprecation of names that could be deemed offensive. > > > -- > Thank you, > Balachandran Sivakumar >
