On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 2:32 PM Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 30/03/2019 13.23, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > > > > >> On Mar 30, 2019, at 1:32 PM, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> I'm not going to (intentionally) actively discriminate for or against > >>> anyone. But I will protect your right, as an individual, to do so as long > >>> as you protect my right to help you achieve the > >>> right balance in our broader communities by stamping out the existence of > >>> any discrimination (positive or negative). > >>> Community over code > >> > >> How do you square this with the code of conduct? In my reading, unless > >> the discrimination threaded some extremely fine needle, it would be in > >> violation and a good argument could be made for the defense of it > >> being in violation as well. > > > > > > Discrimination, by definition, is unjust, unwarranted or prejudicial. > > We discriminate all day long in our every day life, it's fine, as long > as it serves a greater good (or our personal selves). I don't get to go > into your house without you inviting me in, you don't get to claim > social benefits while you have a job, I can't apply for TAC - all > perfectly valid, legal cases of discrimination, that would not violate > the CoC. It's more about the action and consequences than the > dichotomous definition of a term here.
But those aren't the kinds of discrimination that anyone would talk about needing to be "protected" as a right or "stamped out of existence", nor the ones relevant to the current threads on D&I/meritocracy. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
