Re:Mozilla to remove “meritocracy” from governance docs beca...
by finaliteration on Saturday May 26, 2018 @01:08PM
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Exactly! Programmers/Developers brushing this off as, ”well it’s only semantics” seem to forget that our entire industry is predicated on the use of semantics...
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Re:Mozilla to remove “meritocracy” from governance docs beca...
by cucumberferity on Saturday May 26, 2018 @01:44PM
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These people thing changing the code of our institutions works, specifically by giving them more power, that we can rid our institutions of the worst aspects of human nature: racism, sexism, xenophobia.
We can and should combat those aspects for sure, but we are also giving into another aspect of human nature: unchecked power and control, which will almost certainly lead to abuse. There is also no evidence that this will improve diversity.
It's just to make people feel good and put a few radicals in charge who want to dictate everything.