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 f
Well said!
> If we're doing this to "be on the right side"
Or "there are some groups projecting their own inner guilt and trying to
convince the rest of us they are on a moral high ground aka right side".
But because of their record of implementing poly-logism and moral
relativism arguments
Ladies — if any in this sad debate — and gentlemen,
> Well, perhaps it ought to be "black" people who get to say whether they feel
> offended by white/blacklist
Indeed. Myself, I invariably find thoughts of Walter E. Williams highly worth
studying. Amongst others, he also wrote
“The true test
On Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 19:18 Alessio Stalla 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
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
wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 19:18 Alessio Stalla
> wr
Since feelings play a big part in this, and it was suggested that
rationality cannot be applied to feelings:
You can of course reason about feelings, analyze where they come from,
etc. It is also highly dangerous to just follow your feelings, that is
what very young children do. Which is also th
Hi mg, some good points.
Groovy tries to be as agnostic as it can on many points. Let users choose
between static or dynamic, functional or imperative, etc. Given some users
would like to avoid using blacklist/whitelist, isn't giving them that
option a useful thing?
We are talking about a rarely
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
Thank you for chiming in, Cos.
I actually read Jenn's comment to mean the IT community in general, not
this project.
In general I am a big fan of blaming myself first to try and learn, rather
than seeking to blame outside factors, but I would not recommend that you
try to take personal responsibil
