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I read through the Reddit thread and they seem to be focused on the letter n being tagged on certain names (they claim is stands for the n word with strong raci

by iinnPP 4y ago

I read through the Reddit thread and they seem to be focused on the letter n being tagged on certain names (they claim is stands for the n word with strong racist meaning.) Later someone points out that there is another artist who paints mostly darker skin tones who also has the n identifier. I can, immediately and without effort, see why this might be added. As a way to force representation in output. This is, to me, akin to paint which lets you pick a color (let's go with purple) for skin. The Rimworld mod cited apparently comes with an "all white, all black, and all yellow" version. The only version mentioned by the angry folks is the white one. Does anyone know the truth of the matter above?

Semaphor 4y ago
n: There are also black artists tagged that way who seem to very rarely depict people at all. And both the white and 1+ of the n-tagged black artists depicted some non-black people. Rimworld: It was whites only at first, black only got added later and then integrated.
- iinnPP 4y ago
  Thank you. Personally I would not call any of the actions racist. The first one can be a legitimate use case with an incredibly poor choice of identifier (or incredibly good in at least one scenario). The mod being updated kind of argues for itself. I think I will see on the side of caution and call it ignorance instead of malice. The scenario is one where the n is completely harmless and the purported(on Reddit) word was nowhere in the mind when being typed. Seems like the kind of thing GitHub should reach out to people about before acting on. At least where there is any (even farfetched) possible explanation.
  - isoprophlex 4y ago
    Yeah it's all very confusing, and the thing that is most sorely missing is some human communication from github about the why of this ban.
- themaninthedark 4y ago
  Huggingrear stated in a different thread that "he made the WhiteOnly mod as a response to existing mods which removed white people" I don't know how you would validate this but it doesn't seem unreasonable.

by iinnPP 4y ago

Semaphor 4y ago

n: There are also black artists tagged that way who seem to very rarely depict people at all. And both the white and 1+ of the n-tagged black artists depicted some non-black people. Rimworld: It was whites only at first, black only got added later and then integrated.

iinnPP 4y ago
Thank you. Personally I would not call any of the actions racist. The first one can be a legitimate use case with an incredibly poor choice of identifier (or incredibly good in at least one scenario). The mod being updated kind of argues for itself. I think I will see on the side of caution and call it ignorance instead of malice. The scenario is one where the n is completely harmless and the purported(on Reddit) word was nowhere in the mind when being typed. Seems like the kind of thing GitHub should reach out to people about before acting on. At least where there is any (even farfetched) possible explanation.
- isoprophlex 4y ago
  Yeah it's all very confusing, and the thing that is most sorely missing is some human communication from github about the why of this ban.
themaninthedark 4y ago
Huggingrear stated in a different thread that "he made the WhiteOnly mod as a response to existing mods which removed white people" I don't know how you would validate this but it doesn't seem unreasonable.