On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/01/15 17:03, Majken Connor wrote: > > Whichever > > version of God does or doesn't exist doesn't affect Mozilla as an > > organization. > > Unfortunately, that's not something everyone agrees on either. :-( So I > hope you can understand how people who don't share this premise with you > also don't reach the same conclusions you do. > > > What *does* affect it though is treating people of other faiths as (to > > borrow your word) second class citizens and making them feel unwelcome. > > You continue to assume, without backing up the claim, that saying that > someone is wrong about something must make them feel unwelcome or > excluded or discriminated against. This seems to be the fundamental > point of disagreement, and the one we should address. I believe in a > community where dissent and polite disagreement on a wide range of > topics can happen without it fracturing into pieces. Do you? > > If not, where are the boundaries here, in your view? If I say: > > "The design of this code is wrong" > > is that exclusive and discriminatory? How about: > > "Your view of the future of Mozilla is wrong" > > ? > > Or: > > "Your belief in the importance of the openness of the web is wrong. What > we need is open content; open protocols don't matter." > > Gerv > > I have been thinking about this thread over the weekend and honestly it seems like it is going the wrong direction in that some frustrations over blog posts by Gerv are being aired versus talking about the actual proposed changes. That being said as an atheist I disagree with much of what Gerv posts but at the same time I welcome him being able to share a glimpse into his life even if it is heavily Christian content. Maybe I am a little old school but the reason Planet's exists is not to promote content related to the project... If you think this is the case you are very much mistaken. Can we please not try to make our little corner of the web less open by restricting views shared to whatever the most vocal thinks is politically correct for Planet? TL;DR Why can't we agree to disagree on topics and page down instead of censoring individual views of Mozillians. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
