Minor suggestion: if the term race is not descriptive enough or is confusing, then perhaps "ethnicity" would be better. I think quoting the term in the CoC is a bad idea, because that can often be perceived as trivializing the concept being quoted, and nothing could be farther from the intent. Racial tension, and racism, is a very serious matter in many places in the world, and we would *not* want to do anything that suggests we treat the matter with anything less than the full concern it deserves.
-----Original Message----- From: Udo Grabowski (IMK) <udo.grabow...@kit.edu> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 9:10 AM To: illumos-developer <develo...@lists.illumos.org>; illumos-discuss <disc...@lists.illumos.org> Cc: developer@lists.open-zfs.org; Dan McDonald <dan...@joyent.com> Subject: Re: [discuss] [developer] Code of Conduct updates On 22/10/2019 18:01, Dan McDonald wrote: > > >> On Oct 22, 2019, at 11:50 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) <udo.grabow...@kit.edu> >> wrote: >> >> "Race" is a term that itself already stems from at least some form of >> racism. There are no "races" in the homo sapiens sapiens subspecies, >> to which all living humans belong. Especially as a German, I'm always >> bewildered to see this term circulating in the american culture, even >> in official forms, where I always enter "homo sapiens sapiens" when >> asked for "race". I'm wondering why nobody stumbled about that term already. > > Regardless of your opinion, discrimination by "race" exists, has evidence to > support it, and will not be tolerated. > > It's a bit US-centric, but I'd HIGHLY recommend this little history lesson: > > https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1186468302400507904 > > We will not be striking this term, as doing so would hide the problem that > clearly exists. > > Dan > I fully understand that this is still a major problem in some countries, but maybe putting the term in quotes ("race") helps to transport the message that this term is not adequate when used for humans. -- Dr.Udo Grabowski Inst.f.Meteorology & Climate Research IMK-ASF-SAT http://www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/sat.php KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology http://www.kit.edu Postfach 3640,76021 Karlsruhe,Germany T:(+49)721 608-26026 F:-926026 ------------------------------------------ openzfs: openzfs-developer Permalink: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T91ab128e3e20cf25-M5d469e2aafa5f44abe27f2c8 Delivery options: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/subscription
