Re:Mozilla launches a new identity
by disordinary on Thursday January 19, 2017 @12:24AM
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The context is in the conversation, we're talking about marketing material remember.
I'm not dismissing anything, I'm saying we have the opportunity to break the cycle of inequality and anyone fighting that is not just ignorant but also deeply selfish.
Someone saying that they feel disenfranchised because their race, a prominent race in the industry, was excluded from a marketing message specifically trying to make everyone feel welcome and included isn't fighting against anything. They're expressing a feeling. You're dismissing and rejecting their feelings. You go a step further by saying that the person is selfish, privileged, and needs own up to all the atrocities their race has ever committed.
Re:Mozilla launches a new identity
by disordinary on Thursday January 19, 2017 @01:39PM
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White people weren't excluded from the marketing campaign. There was a white man and a white woman there, which at 10% of the worlds population meant that they were over represented. Plenty of races were not represented at all. The guy wasn't upset about not being represented, he was upset that other races were also included so prominently, or in some cases were more prominent.
Did you also miss the part where he said that his race deserved to be the prominent race because it is genetically superior? Is it okay to express feelings like that?
I feel sick.
People don't choose how, when, or where they are born. They come into the world a blank slate and are shaped by those before them. They little choice in the matter.
You can't forgive or dismiss the errs of one culture while holding another completely accountable for things that came before them.
You can't dismiss their experience as invalid or insignificant because you feel that someone else is more important.
That's the same type of reasoning and ignorance that led to the situation we're in.