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Words are important. Devs will argue over a correct variable name for hours but think names in other places have no meaning
by connorelsea 8y ago
Words are important. Devs will argue over a correct variable name for hours but think names in other places have no meaning
- geggam 8y agoDevs or Developers ?
- connorelsea 8y agosame thing in the context of my sentence. developers
- finaliteration 8y agoExactly! Programmers/Developers brushing this off as, ”well it’s only semantics” seem to forget that our entire industry is predicated on the use of semantics...
- cucumberferity 8y agoThese people thing changing the code of our institutions works, specifically by giving them more power, that we can rid our institutions of the worst aspects of human nature: racism, sexism, xenophobia. We can and should combat those aspects for sure, but we are also giving into another aspect of human nature: unchecked power and control, which will almost certainly lead to abuse. There is also no evidence that this will improve diversity. It's just to make people feel good and put a few radicals in charge who want to dictate everything.
- cucumberferity 8y agoWords are important. Diversity is important. Changing words like "meritocracy" does not improve diversity. It is the illusion of diversity, a feel-good opportunity for well-intentioned bystanders. The true intent is for a small group of highly politically motivated people to gain more control. The governance documents are about control and changing those documents means a shift in control. The movement we are seeing here opposes meritocracy on political principle, as part of their worldview. It does not stop there though. They believe the only answer for "diversity" to put them in charge, beginning with government documents that reflect their radical worldview, see FreeBSD Code of Conduct. Even if you support diversity, you have to realize these people do not care about diversity or inclusion, they are little authoritarians who want more power to dictate what people say and whose opinion matters more/less based on immutable characteristics. We cannot allow authoritarians with such warped views of the world to seize control of key open source projects.
- connorelsea 8y agoyou sound like a conspiracy theorist. it is changing an inappropriate word, not shifting control over the entire company Mozilla. i doubt you care about diversity or improving the quality of the open source project
- nailer 8y agoReally? People who interpret 'meritocracy' in a narrow, little known historical context, as being a conspiracy against miniorities, rather than it's currently accepted form, sound like conspiracy theorists.
- connorelsea 8y agothat is quite the stretch. thinking a word should be updated or clarified does not make me a "conspiracy theorist". What am I conspiring against? people fighting so hard against a simple change to make the sentence more inclusive are just fighting to keep their antiquated system of bias in place
- cucumberferity 8y agoThey are proposing removing meritocracy based on their political view that certain classes of people will never be able to participate on a level playing field. They are the ones advancing a narrative of exclusion, telling individuals in whole swaths that they can never compete in open source projects. They have no evidence to support this of course, just what they were taught in their sociology classes at uni. In reality though they are the ones pushing outdated bias.
- nailer 8y ago> does not make me a "conspiracy theorist". What am I conspiring against? Being a conspiracy theorist means you believe someone else is conspiring against you.
- guitarbill 8y agoand yet Mozilla put out a proposal to discuss this, not something people just do for trivial matters. so they clearly feel strongly about it, but this dude can't? also, there's no need for the ad hominem attack. if he is a conspiracist, it should be easy to point out a more simple explanation.