On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 05:37:43PM +0000, 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.
Or a simpler solution: judge individuals "by the content of their character." As a famous Christian minister once said [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream -- Roberto C. Sánchez
