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I think such a change generates awareness. A lot of problems linger in the tech sector I'm not really aware of. The write up of the article author sheds light a
by myspy 6y ago
I think such a change generates awareness. A lot of problems linger in the tech sector I'm not really aware of. The write up of the article author sheds light again on biased recruitment in the tech sector. Something that appears to be a fundamental problem with the education sector in the US being broken.
- emteycz 6y agoTrue, it generated awareness - but also hate, possibly much more than not.
- XorNot 6y agoIf someone decided they don't care about bias in the tech sector because the default git branch name was changed, they weren't going to and didn't care to start with.
- gopiandcode 6y agoThis feels like a strawman - the issue isn't people deciding they don't care about bias because of this change, but rather that if tech companies are bending over so much as to make such an insignificant change to avoid seeming biased against minorities then how could bias in the tech industry exist at all?
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoAlso, this kind of change might increase cynicism.
- cforrester 6y agoI'm confused by this question, aren't you essentially asking, "how can a problem exist if some people are presently taking actions that try to mitigate that problem?"
- emteycz 6y agoNo, they're asking "what even is the problem if the solution is this?"
- morlockabove 6y agoI wonder how many friends that attitude will win you.
- bregma 6y agoIt doesn't generate hate. The hate was already there. It just reveals it.
- bzbarsky 6y agoThe hate I've seen generated by ham-handed thought-and-speech policing is hate against the people doing the policing and hate against people standing up against the policing, not hate against the people the policing is ostensibly protecting. So no, it's not revealing existing hate. It's actively generating new hate.
- bregma 6y agoThe hate against the people "doing the policing" and the hate against the "people standing up to the policy" were already there. Hate doesn't spring parthenogenically from the void, it has to be seeded and nurtured and cultivated and be vomited out only when the time is right. Voicing a disagreement does not require or beget hate.
- bzbarsky 6y ago> were already there I really don't think so. Most obviously because those two groups did not even exist as entities most people were conscious of until recently. > Hate doesn't spring parthenogenically from the void Of course not. But it sure can be seeded and nurtured, as you note, by actions people take. And far too many people have been taking various actions that look to me as if they are designed, intentionally or not, to seed and nurture hate. And fear, for that matter. Which are not unrelated things: hate and fear are deeply intertwined and beget each other. > Voicing a disagreement does not require or beget hate. That is most certainly true. At the same time, a disagreement _can_ be voiced in a way that begets hate, and all too often is (e.g. via attacking the person, not the idea). And suppressing disagreement can absolutely beget hate. I feel like both are on the rise, unfortunately.
- slightwinder 6y agoBut it is good awarness? The major awarness people get from this cases is not about actual problems, but about very questionable wording-problems and behaviour of certain people. Not sure whether this at the end not creates more hate&blind eyes than important awarness.
- Dirlewanger 6y agoThe only awareness it generates is awareness to do the same language policing in other places that never asked for it.