Re: Can the community team remove packages or kick me out for not removing packages?
On 2025-07-17 17:37:43, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2025-07-17 08:57:12 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote:
> [...]
> > racism by definition has to involve a power gradient, and that
> > definitionally something is only racist if aimed at a disfavored group
> > by a group with more social power.
> [...]
>
> Conversely, a problem I've had to directly struggle with in managing
> diversity and inclusion policy for other global/international open source
> software communities is that a dominant group in one part of the world can
> be marginalized and disfavored in another part of the world, so more
> generally it's hard to make judgements about discrimination based on power
> dynamic when extrapolating to the entire planet. Ultimately it becomes
> easier to just assume that everyone could be marginalized somewhere, even if
> they're not marginalized in their present locale, and adjust policies
> accordingly.
^ This. This is the point I was getting to. But it's probably a too
complex situation for people to prefer an "X is good, Y is bad" view.
And again, I want to make sure it's clear what standard we hold
ourselves to, here.
iustin
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