Moving this issue out of the thread about India, as it doesn't belong to it.
It seems that my explanation of explanation was not quite useful. Just the last paragraph was a satire and I've got complaint that satirically playing with the racist stereotypes could seem racist. That was the target of the explanation of explanation. However, your question that it's still not clear to you why I am talking about Trump supporters is much more important. If we tend to be an inclusive movement, we should do our best to include people from as much of society as we are able to do. The first and the most obvious problem in Wikimedia community was striking lack of women. And, for a long time we have the programs which promote inclusion of women in our movement. Then we have the issue of minorities. Depending on the country, those processes started sooner or later. However, as we articulated Wikimedia movement as a progressive one, we are slowly but surely losing large portions of our societies. The metaphor for that portion is "a Trump voter", but those people exist in every society. They do not vote for Trump; they could be even a progressive force in their society; but, as with Trump supporter, they've been ostracized from the dominant part of the society as less worthy. I've said those parts of the societies are our new underrepresented groups. In United States it's about middle class people scared of those who are socially in worse (immigrants) and better position (among others, us) than themselves, voting for Trump. In Austria, it's about working class people scared of those in worse and better position than themselves, voting for FPO. And so on. And if you are asking me why we should take care about their incorporation, I will tell you that I was getting quite similar questions when I raised the problem of lack of participation of women in Wikimedia movement. It's the wider social role of our movement. On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Peter Southwood <peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > Still not clear. Why? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf > Of Milos Rancic > Sent: Tuesday, 28 June 2016 1:28 PM > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Our problem with India > > On Jun 28, 2016 09:58, "Milos Rancic" <mill...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> (Hint for American >> Wikimedians: Trump supporters are your next target for positive >> discrimination.) > > It seems I have to clarify this sentence. > > I didn't say Trump, I didn't say Cruz, I didn't say Cruz supporters, I said > Trump supporters. > > I have in mind very specific population, genuinely scared by the privileged > Mexican illegal immigrants, working lazy for the American agricultural > industry for $5/h or less and supported by Bay Area hipsters and Jewish lobby. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2016.0.7640 / Virus Database: 4613/12507 - Release Date: 06/28/16 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Milos _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
