To me (not being a contributor) this is the best contribution to the
discussion so far.
Am 30.03.2021 um 17:24 schrieb Maksim Fomin via Gcc:
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On Friday, 26 March 2021 г., 23:02, Nathan Sidwell <nat...@acm.org> wrote:
I would rather not have to write this email. Like many developers, I just want
to write code. Right now we’re working towards the GCC 11 release. I thought
about deferring this email. But there’s never a good time, and bad behaviour
needs to be addressed in the moment. I have left this for too long already.
I used to think of GCC development as egalitarian, and therefore fair, and, by
assumption, welcoming. That is not true. I’m a white dude with a British accent.
/Of course/ I have white male privilege. I used to joke that I fell into every
job I’ve had (including my doctorate) – that, right there, is white male
privilege.
Perhaps you discount the benefits of white male privilege. You’re wrong.
You cannot have missed the sparsity of women and people of color in compiler
engineering (kaporcenter black tech workforce). Maybe you fallaciously put that
down to imbalances in education (leakytechpipeline) How can we, the GCC
community, be expected to address that? Representation matters, we’re the
problem.
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The logic of this letter (and sjw in general) is obviously false.
1. There are no examples where Stallman (or people with similar views) censored
project contribution from non-white non-male people.
In recent decades there is inflow of people from different counties and 2020 is
definitely more diverse in programming than 2000 or 1980.
This observation (absense of discrimiation) is the first important note which
blows the login behind the letter.
2. Because the p1 is hard to refute, the discussion moves from objective things
(for example, rejecting some pull request from people of color) toward
subjective
things like 'remove Stallman because I am not comfortable with his
views/claims'. However, once this arguement is naked from the rest of
discussion it becomes obviously weak.
Why the project should remove Stallman because 'some' people are not
comfortable? Why sjw consider themselves in the position to judge? What to do
with the group of people who supports him?
Finally, 'white priviledge' is only one (although big) subject of dedates.
What happens if other areas of social, political or economical debates are
brought to the project? There are plenty of issues which divide people and
there is no way to make the project to move of on if for each issue one group
of people will demand removing members of comittee because of their views.
3. Most of claims about Stallman are not true (to be more precise - they are
deliberately misrepresent what Stallman said to make his views to look immoral).
4. Regarding morality. This letter (like many other sjw creatures) says many
words about morality, diversity, but at the end of the day it boils down to
removing Stallman from position. As a citizen of post-soviet country I can
vividly see that this letter is enterely about politics and looks very similar
to communist agenda which likes to hide authoritarian policies behind morality.
It is very surprising for people from former Soviet block countries to see
western world falling into 'very familiar' but notorious propaganda.
Best regards,
Maxim Fomin