On Monday, June 15, 2020 at 2:56:45 PM UTC-5, Daniele Procida wrote: > > We don't have to justify anything to anyone. If we want to change words in > *our* framework, it's absolutely nobody's business but our own. > > If black members of the DSF or the community are disheartened that the > word "black" gets to refer to so many negative things and are bothered when > they see them in Django, then that alone is sufficient justification. > > If we want a reason for changing "blacklist" (or whatever), it's that > people in our community said they would feel better about it and asked to > have it changed. > > Acknowledging how someone feels about something and acting because you > care about their feelings seems to be a respectful thing to do. > > "We did it because we felt like it" is an utterly unanswerable > justification. > > The DSF has credibility because the software is first rate, the foundation > is well-governed and the community is an international example of decency > and kindness. Things like this become credible because the DSF chooses to > do them - it's not the other way round. >
Strong +1 to this. Very well put, Daniele. Drew (2019 DjangoCon US Opportunity Grants Chair, for those who may not know me) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/4337e473-a20b-4067-b479-7420e5e504dao%40googlegroups.com.
