Does Reddit arch celebrate Christmas? I don’t see how a rainbow would imply it’s relevant to the community regardless. It’s not forcing anything on anyone.
Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 8:17 PM, LuKaRo <li...@lrose.de> wrote: > On 02.06.20 01:18, Amir Fletcher via arch-general wrote: >> Recently, the Arch reddit logo was changed to a rainbow. This is for "pride >> month". It is forcing a political view on all of the users who did not ask >> for this. Many of us don't care about the views of the developers or >> moderators as long as we continue to enjoy Arch. > > I can understand both points. I think that "pride month", or LGBTQ+ in > general, is something that is worth supporting. However, I think a > project should not claim support of any political or societal topic if > the project in fact does not have the support for such a decision by > it's members. Otherwise, such a statement is completely worthless. What > does it mean to say "Arch supports pride month" if we don't even know if > Arch users do or don't support this agenda? > > Therefore, I think that such a claim requires at least a minimum amount > of discussion. > >> When this was brought up, the moderator silenced the criticism and deleted >> the thread. > > And if this discussion didn't happen prior to publishing the claim, it > should be at least allowed afterwards (and not banned by deleting a > corresponding thread). > > Banning or deleting discussions on valid topics in a community project > is a sign of bad leadership in general. As a community project should be > democratic, there should be no need for doing so at all. Just my 2 cents. > >> This is where the problem begins. If we cannot even discuss disagreement >> with views being forced on us, what's left? Please moderators and >> developers, reconsider forcing your views on us and not even allowing >> discussion about it. We do not all share your views, but we can get along if >> everyone is left to their own devices. > I totally agree to that. Especially if we consider that supporting > something like a "pride month" is a privilege that not everyone on this > world comes to enjoy. We shouldn't forget that there are lots of > countries in the world were free speech is only a phrase and not practice.
