Re:How to educate me about prejudice in the open-source comm...
by moon_priestess on Sunday January 01, 2017 @05:21PM
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> People do make false accusations. But you know what is a lot more common than that in the world at large? Actual discrimination.
This is really all that should need to be said. Anyone who takes ESR's claims of mental illness of accusers for granted but refuses to accept the claims of those who experience discrimination is part of the problem.
People do make false accusations. But you know what is a lot more common than that in the world at large? Actual discrimination.
The problem is that most of the time Person A discriminates against Person B, Person A will swear up and down they have done nothing wrong and had no ill intent. That is what makes it such a difficult issue and one where people need to be open minded when hearing from people who do not share their life experience or social status.
It's a lot more healthy and beneficial in my view to approach any complaints with an open mind. Obviously in the end we have to try to come to terms with the facts, but when you put up a bunch of barriers before a victim can even be heard you are protecting the status quo. Which probably sounds great if you are a person who is really comfortable, but might not be so great for someone else.