Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 04:05:35PM +0200, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>...
> Debian has a Diversity Statement [1] which says that Debian welcomes
> people regardless of how they identify themselves. Trans people and
> non-binary people face a lot of discrimination, harrassment and
> bullying around the world.
Our Diversity Statement says that Debian "welcomes and encourages
participation by everyone".
People who express how they identify themselves by having a swastika
tattoo on their forehead also face a lot of discrimination, harrassment
and bullying around the world. Our Diversity Statement makes it clear
that we are welcoming and encouraging their participation and are not
ourselves discriminating against them.
> That bad treatment of these people is
> against Debian's core values.
>...
Our Diversity Statement says that we "welcome contributions from
everyone as long as they interact constructively with our community".
Debian does not have core values regarding how people are treated
outside Debian.
Debian is not a project that fights for trans people or fights for
denazification or fights for whatever other non-technical topics
individual contributors might consider worth fighting for elsewhere.
Diversity means that in any kinds of conflicts people on all sides
are encouraged to contribute to Debian as long as they interact
constructively with our community.
> Therefore, the Debian Project wouldn't
> want to distribute software that appears to facilitate that kind of
> harassment, regardless of the software license it is released under.
> We might not want to distribute such software even if it also has
> non-harmful uses.
>...
The exact opposite of diversity is to call everything one dislikes or
disagrees with "harassment" or *phobic.
> Thank you,
> Jeremy Bicha
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Adrian
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