Dear Carmen
Carmen, the fact that you are a women does not make your voice any more important in pulling down a fight that others have led for years in order to change as little as they could current worlds order.Re-posting the below, which ended up on the wrong mailing list: Hi, I don't know if it's okay if I add my five cents (adjusted for inflation), but I'm reasonably well-read on this and adjacent topics, as well as included in the list of minorities that would be sponsored under the Outreachy program.
I do not see any relation between building programs to encourage diversity and war could you please expand.But I am unequivocally against such programs, on the simple grounds that it tries to combat discrimination _through_ discrimination, which is about as silly to me as trying to achieve world peace through war.
I do not think the people who are victims of centuries of paternalist government and colonialism should feel responsible of what the white governing people fell. I really do not care about what they feel actually, I am more interested on what the persons who are victim of segregation feel.It generates envy/antipathy in individuals from groups that are excluded from the given list of minorities, and it generates imposter syndrome in those who are,
I do not see why people would hire anyone for anything else then their skills. Also women and/or black people are not a minority women compose more then 50% of the world population and white people in general only compose 1/8 of worlds population, it is white men that are a minority in this world, but it is also them who run it.because they might only be hired/accepted because of their status as minority, rather than excelling in their skillset.
I really do not see why you should be judged like this and please feel reassured no-one has any reason to think that.I would be very against getting involved in this program, though I know that the FSFE currently practises positive discrmination selection standards for its internship program:We want more women to be involved in Free Software. That's why we will give preference to applications from suitably qualified female candidates.from https://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.en.html I'd personally be a little bit disappointed if this carried any significance in my being selected as intern, because I do believe that I can hold my own with my unique skillset.
Could you please reference what you say because I happen to think the exact contrary,On Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:43:59 CEST Daniel Pocock wrote:Increasing diversity could also help avoid situations like this in future.I don't know if there is any evidence to suggest this. Where there are humans, things sometimes go awry. Having a more ethnically/sexually diverse cast of humans doesn't change that.