On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 22:30, Christian Boltz <opensuse@cboltz.de> wrote:
At the same time, however, I am urged to suggest not to use the term "discrimination" for things that have nothing to do with it. This is a serious problem, and using this term improperly risks undermining the work of all those who are committed to actively fighting it.
To start with - can we please first have an as-exact-as-possible definition/description of what is or isn't discrimination?
I'll start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination because that matches my understanding:
Discrimination is the act of making distinctions between human beings based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they are perceived to belong. People may discriminate on the basis of age, caste, [... long list ...] as well as other categories.
There can be positive (not punishing someone who misbehaved) and negative discrimination (for example punishing someone who did nothing wrong) - since we are a mostly technical community, they are easily explained by the words "whitelisting" and "blocklisting" ([1] again).
Can we agree on this definition?
I don't really agree, since discrimination is based on who you are and not how you act, it would be really hard to explain acting on bad or good behaviour as a form of discrimination. I would in that case opt for a term "moderation" instead ;) LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org