This. Even from a US perspective, we really need to not let political division into even more apparently non-political things. As far as I can tell, the current language seems to be there to specifically avoid that. It isn't there to allow discrimination if someone tries to claim they're making a political statement.
Best, Ian On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 10:58 AM Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 9:37 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 8:12 AM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 12:20 AM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12...@gmail.com >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> I realize this was probably brought up in the discussions about the >>>>> scipy code of conduct which I have not looked at, but I’m troubled by the >>>>> inclusion of “political beliefs” in the document. >>>>> >>>> >>>> It was not brought up explicitly as far as I remember. >>>> >>>> >>>>> See e.g. >>>>> https://github.com/jupyter/governance/pull/5 >>>>> >>>> >>>> That's about moving names around. I don't see any mention of political >>>> beliefs? >>>> >>> >>> Sorry about that, I elided the 6. This is the correct link: >>> >>> https://github.com/jupyter/governance/pull/56 >>> >> >> Thanks, that's useful context for your question. >> >> I'm personally not too attached to "political belief", but I think the >> discussion in that PR and in the OSCON context is very US-centric and >> reflective of the polarized atmosphere there. >> >> If everyone is fine with removing political beliefs then I'm fine with >> that, but I don't think that the argument itself (from a non-US >> perspective) has much merit. >> > > I'm strongly opposed to removing it. The last thing I want is to have > politics brought into NumPy development, which is where this discussion is > already headed. It could get ugly fast. > > Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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