* Alexandre François Garreau <[email protected]> [2019-11-06 03:14]: > It’s natural to generalize, problem when generalization actually (linearly/ > monodimensionally) hierarchize people and becomes part of division culture or > oppression.
It may be natural and human. But it is not rational, and what I mean is statements like: Black/White people are bad. Women/man is bad - or - Americans/Russians/Africans/etc. are bad. Those are generalizations and type of generalization that is of no benefit for anybody but hate creators. If one says that proprietary software is harming people, that is objective generalization. > Nothing is objective, and even personal subjective view may be relevant, such > as “americans find russian accent scary” (there are actually linguistic > explanations of that) or “russians are quiet and serviable”. objective is nonsubjective, thus undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena; "an objective appraisal"; "objective evidence"). Yes, people tend to generalize, that does not make the world better place. From programmers I expect specific statements, not generalizations. It is very easy to be subjective and make subjective, emotionally distorted and personally biased generalized statements. When such statements are depicting certain class of people being bad for some reason, there is no use of such but the creation of hate.
