On Thursday 23 July 2020 at 22:44:51, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> The Apache foundation has some cash laying around. Make whatever wording
> changes you like, but **at the same time**, donate a meaningful amount
> of money to a cause like the ACLU or the defense/medical funds for the
> protestors.
Don't you have that the wrong way around?
All these IT companies, groups and foundations who are changing their wording
to make the world a better place are doing what the ACLU has been trying to do
for years, so surely the ACLU should be funding the IT support people who have
to deal with the extra workload of managing these changes?
The oppressed societal groups get the improvement they've been waiting for,
the ACLU doesn't have to work so hard, and the IT support staff get compensated
for the extra work they have to do for the benefit of society.
Of course, that model all breaks down if you don't really believe that these
changes are going to make the world a better place, or that the oppressed
societal groups are not in fact going to be better off as a result of changing
the word black to block an an email filtering system, but nobody really thinks
that, do they?
Note for those challenged by sarcasm or irony: I do not agree with the change
and I do not think it will have the effects it is being done in the name of.
Antony.
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