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Re: Cultural differences and how to handle them



On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 11:21:03PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 08:14:40AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> > 
> > [listmaster copied in hopes they will agree with my assessment here]
> >...
> > If you are going to participate in a diversity discussion beyond a
> > certain point you do need to actually spend some time with google just
> > as you would for any technical topic.
> > 
> > In this instance, researching arguments about privilege, criticism of
> > the all lives matter movement, explanations behind the black lives
> > matter movement (and why it is important to its members) would all be
> > valuable.
> >...
> 
> ...
> People should [not] be expected to research movements that are relevant only 
> in a handful of countries with < 10% of the earths population for being 
> allow to discuss on Debian lists.

The Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter references were intended to
explain that the suggestion to replace gay pride month with an "all are
welcome" event is not going to be viewed as inclusive, but is going to
be viewed as an attempt to dismiss and ignore LGBTQIA+ / other minority
issues.

> Hispanic people only being welcome for diversity in Debian if they 
> already have the privilege of being in the US, but not welcome for 
> diversity in Debian if they live in Mexico or South America might
> only make sense from a US-only point of view.

The US has a long history of racism and misogyny, and those issues are
especially prevalent in the tech community. I expect that every country
has similar issues, though the details on who is impacted are likely
different.


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