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> talent and contribution are everything, the rest is private and irrelevant Indeed. However, sometimes this viewpoint is considered "erasure" -- if I say your
by serve_yay 12y ago
> talent and contribution are everything, the rest is private and irrelevant
Indeed. However, sometimes this viewpoint is considered "erasure" -- if I say your sexuality/gender/ethnicity is irrelevant to code, that's really me eliminating it from the picture of who you are as a person.
It's an interesting conundrum, because while these things shouldn't get in the way, at the same time, we want people to feel comfortable. We don't want people to feel that they must downplay or cover up parts of themselves. So we want to care about these things, but caring about them too much is bad also (because then we'd be fetishizing).
- Kalium 12y agoThere's a basic conflict between people who consider identity contextually relevant and people who consider identity universally relevant. To the former group, all that matters is that you did good work, full stop. To the latter group, that's erasure.