Re: FSF leadership

[John Tapsell]

Now using the term "race" is "copying racists"? Wtf?



On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, 21:37 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau, 
wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 19. September 2019, 10:31:38 CEST schrieb Christian Loosli:
> > I think that people should be elected into positions based on their
> > suitability for that position, which means that things like sex, gender,
> > race, cultural background, sexual orientation etc. pp.
>
> Race? Sounds like people are proposing there are human races?
>
> You might be reusing phrases here by people you think are out there for a
> more
> humanist world, but please reflect a bit on this very term, and if it
> makes
> sense to copycat that phrase and if it really represent what you are
> thinking.
> And if you are not actually copying terms and ideas of racists, when you
> might
> not be one.
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich
>
>
>

Re: FSF leadership

[John Tapsell]

I also agree with us insisting on only preapproved skin color and
genitals.


On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, 11:59 Valorie Zimmerman, 
wrote:

> As many of you know, Richard Stallman has stepped down from the FSF.
> However, his supporters on the FSF Board remain. The FSF is on our Advisory
> Board, according to https://ev.kde.org/advisoryboard.php
>
> Accordingly, I would like us (the KDE Community) to advise them to
> diversify their Board, as RedHat has done here:
> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/open-letter-free-software-foundation-board-directors.
> If we cannot do this as a community, I would like to ask the Board to do
> this on our behalf.
>
> All the best,
>
> Valorie
>
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