![]() ![]() ![]() And for large sections of that infrastructure, it’s on us – us! – to keep it working. The shared software infrastructure of civilization has to work, or economies will seize up and people will die. Now that the Internet – the hacker culture’s creation! – is everywhere, and civilization is increasingly software-dependent, we have a duty, the duty I wrote about in Holding Up The Sky. We must constantly demand merit – performance, intelligence, dedication, and technical excellence – of ourselves and each other. This is because we must be a cult of meritocracy. I’m not going to analyze SJW ideology here except to point out, again, why the hacker culture must consider anyone who holds it an enemy. These are the people – the political and doctrinal tendency, united if in no other way by an elaborate shared jargon and a seething hatred of djangoconcardiff’s “white straight male”, who recently hounded Nobel laureate Tim Hunt out of his job with a fraudulent accusation of sexist remarks. And, unless you have been living under a rock, so do you. Rosario tagged his Twitter report “Social Justice in action!” He knows who these people are: SJWs, “Social Justice Warriors”. And equally clear that what they want to replace it with is racial and sexual identity politics. It is clear that djangoconcardiff and the author of the Covenant (self-described transgender feminist Coraline Ada Ehmke) want to replace the “cult of meritocracy” with something else. Paragraph 2 denounces the “pervasive cult of meritocracy”. The slippery, Newspeak-like quality of djangoconcardiff’s “suggestion” makes it hard to pin down from the text itself whether he/she is merely stumping for inclusiveness or insinuating that rejection of pull requests by “persons of color” is itself evidence of racism and thoughtcrime.īut, if you think you’re reading that ‘djangoconcardiff’ considers acceptance of pull requests putatively from “persons of color” to be politically mandatory, a look at the Contributor Covenant he/she advocates will do nothing to dissuade you. (DjangoCon Europe 2015 was this past May/June in Cardiff.) ![]() It is unknown who was speaking as ‘djangoconcardiff’, and that login has now been deleted, like the GitHub issue. D.Ĭonversation on that issue is preserved in the Twitter link above, but the issue itself in GitHub has apparently been deleted in its totality. As a white straight male and lead of this trending repository, your adoption of this Code of Conduct will send a loud and clear message that inclusion is a primary objective of the Django community and of the software development community in general. ![]() As a suggestion I recommend adopting the Contributor Code of Conduct () to ensure everyone’s contributions are accepted regarless of their sex, sexual orientation, skin color, religion, height, place of origin, etc. I noticed that you have rejected some pull requests to add some good django libraries and that the people submitting thsoe pull requests are POCs (People of Colour). Great project!! I have one observation and a suggestion. On October 29th 2015 he reported that someone posting as ‘djangoconcardiff’ opened an issue against pull request #176 on ‘awesome-django’, addressing it to Rosario. Django is a web development framework that is a flourishing and well-respected part of the ecology around the of the Python language. Now comes Roberto Rosario of the Django Software Foundation. I interpreted this as an attempt to beat the hacker culture into political pliability, and advised anyone in a leadership position to beware of similar attempts. Recently I blogged a safety warning that according to a source I consider reliable, a “women in tech” pressure group has made multiple efforts to set Linus Torvalds up for a sexual assault accusation. The hacker culture, and STEM in general, are under ideological attack. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |