If psf wants supports ten conferences and 9 of them have a typical gender ratio of 7:3 (males:females) and so they support 1 conference with a gender ratio of 3:7, then I think they're in violation of these terms.

Was PSF acting in a discriminatory manner by supporting the tenth conference?

If they picked any of the conferences based on the gender of the attendees, then they were pretty obviously discriminating based on a protected characteristic and should face legal ramifications for it.

So unintentional discrimination is ok, but intentionally counterbalancing (even extremely tepidly) is very bad?

If you read

> support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers

as a racist statement, you need to step back and re-evaluate things.

If you think treating people differently based on race is fine, you ARE a racist. If you think treating people differently based on sex is fine, you ARE a sexist. My dude.

People ARE treated differently based on race and gender. For example, women are severely underrepresented in the tech industry.

You can either look into why that is and attempt to address underlying issues, or you can pretend people are sexist for doing something that doesn't directly benefit you.

The way how you respond and means of addressing the issue very much matters. It's possible to have equitable objectives, but using discriminatory means. For example, just declaring quota and filling to order will fulfill the objective, but will be very discriminatory in practice.

Equity vs. Equality. Google it, “my dude”.

I do think a lot of these people who claim reverse racism just have no idea what the word “equity” even means.

That would be true if the society was already perfectly fair and neutral (which some people believe).

However, there is racism and sexism in the world (it's systemic, in a sense it's not about one person not liking another personally, but biases propagated throughout the society). To counter that, you need to recognize it, and it will be necessary to treat some people differently.

For example, women may not feel safe being a small minority at a gathering full of men. If you do nothing, many potentially interested women will not show up. You could conclude that it's just the way things are and women are simply not interested enough in the topic, or you could acknowledge the gender-specific issue and do something about it. But this isn't a problem affecting everyone equally, so it would require treating women specially.

So brave, saying this from a throwaway account.

Thanks dad, I missed you

You ever ask yourself WHY a throwaway account might be necessary? Look in the mirror

“I’d just become leader and I’m excited and President Trump’s there. And I look over at the Democrats and they stand up. They look like America,” he told Sorkin. “We stand up. We look like the most restrictive country club in America.”

Kevin McCarthy, former GOP House leader and Speak of the House.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/30/mccarthy-...