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.
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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.
-- Jeremy Stanley
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