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Re:Mozilla to remove “meritocracy” from governance docs beca... by cucumberferity on Saturday May 26, 2018 @01:52PM (#17163334)
> At the community development level, your intentional and forced choices around language, schedule, pronouns, and even technical terminology can make contributors from varying backgrounds feel welcome or unwelcome.

The proposal is not to make Mozilla more diverse, nor would it accomplish that.

The proposal is to change the language to make Mozilla seem more diverse to people with very explicit radical views on diversity.

This will actually have the opposite effect of reducing diversity and only serves to empower the people with the correct views.

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Re:Mozilla to remove “meritocracy” from governance docs beca... by plantain on Saturday May 26, 2018 @04:34PM (#17164133)
That was literally in response to: "Thus, to make your software suck less, you only take the best developers no matter what race, gender, heritage, etc. these persons have."

Meritocracy perpetuates the status quo, which is just a local maximum and not the overall maximum.

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