Thank you for chiming in, Jenn.
As you mention "problems our community faces with inclusivity" - would
you mind mention a case of such a problem in the past? I was one of the
mentors of this project (as in was a part of it from its early days in
ASF), so I guess I am missing something in this regard. And it would
help me to do my job better next time as a mentor of new projects.
Feel free to send me a private note if you feel uncomfortable to share
this on dev@
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Thank you,
Cos
On 2020-06-13 23:23, Jenn Strater wrote:
Hi everyone,
I find this thread especially the responses very educational in regards
to the problems our community faces with inclusivity. I know my vote
doesn't count, but +1 from me.
Jenn
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 9:59 AM Thibault Kruse <tibokr...@googlemail.com
<mailto:tibokr...@googlemail.com>> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 19:18 Alessio Stalla <alessiosta...@gmail.com
<mailto:alessiosta...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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.
Some expressions are non-inclusive even if no person were to feel
offended by them. The typical case against "blacklist" can be found
e.g here:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/styleguide/inclusive_code.md
"Terms such as “blacklist” and “whitelist” reinforce the notion that
black==bad and white==good. 'That Word /Black'/, by Langston Hughes
<https://mcwriting11.blogspot.com/2014/06/that-word-black-by-langston-hughes.html>
illustrates
this problem in a lighthearted, if somewhat pointed way."
This has been discussed so often online right now, it does not seem
useful to discuss it again starting at zero without reference to an
existing discussion.
