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"these people" Refers to a long list of attempts by social justice warriors to join projects and organisations with the intent to subvert the organisation into
by generic_user 10y ago
"these people"
Refers to a long list of attempts by social justice warriors to join projects and organisations with the intent to subvert the organisation into a platform for there social activism. Which includes introducing extremely vague codes of conduct and then trying to use these vague guidelines to purge the organization of whomever they see as an obstacle of consolidating power and subverting resources.
I am not going to drag in a bunch of links because anyone who has been observing this for the past few years has seen these people attempt this trojan horse tactic multiple times in multiple communities.
One of the most awful episodes was when the gnome foundation was essentially bankrupted by having there entire budget for developer outreach subverted to 'Outreach Program for Women' which essentially entailed giving checks for 5,000 to any women to wanted the money regardless of there qualifications talent or history in open source. Needless to say the director was forced to resign.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/gnome-bled-dry-by-outreach-programs/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/gnome-bled-dry-by-outreach-prog...
- empath75 10y agoNo one is ever going to take you seriously if you use the term "Social Justice Warrior".
- generic_user 10y agoPerhaps you have some enlightening refutation? Tactical deflection is not an argument its simply intellectual cowardice.
- LyndsySimon 10y agoWhat term would you propose to describe the group/movement we're discussing?
- jegoodwin3 10y agoYou are correct. 'Social Justice Warrior' is dogwhistling. Anyone who wants to be taken seriously calls them Jews.
- sctb 10y agoPlease don't. We ban accounts that repeatedly post uncivilly like this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- mzw_mzw 10y agoEmpirically false.
- dragonwriter 10y agoPeople that already subscribe identify with a particular tribe will, others will not. AFAICT, the whole point of using that term is as a tribal membership signal.