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Open source projects are by their nature intended to be welcoming, pulling in contributions from many different volunteers. But in reality, open source and the tech industry in general often lack diversity. Speaking at the Open Source Leadership Summit in February, Mozilla's Chief Innovation Officer Katharina Borchert told the crowd that working to bring ethnic, gender, and skill diversity to open source projects isn't just the right thing to do because of moral grounds, it's the right thing to do to make projects more successful.
Me, I beg to differ. Pretty sure success has to do with the diversity of thought/ideas rather than genetic diversity.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @10:22AM (1 child)
Mr King said all of these things in the context of his times 50 years ago. His principles may be timeless, but to imply his judgment of America after such a long time to be accurate is beyond ridiculous. His opinions of America back then are no more true today than the opinions of his contemporaries on Japan.
No. Quoting him in order to deflect from acknowledging that the day he dreamed of is still far in the future makes one a racist.
He is quoting him to point out how some people don't live by their own principles. Either you accept Mr. King's view that discrimination based on race is wrong or you support judging people based on race when it comes to employment. These two positions are objectively mutually exclusive. It is valid criticism to point out that people who assert both of those positions at the same time are at best not living up to their own rules, or at worse unprincipled two-faced hypocrites.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @09:07PM
His principles may be timeless, but to imply his judgment of America after such a long time to be accurate is beyond ridiculous.
No, his opinions are still accurate because so very little has changed.
Black families are still 16x poorer [forbes.com] than white families and most of that wealth is in a single depreciating asset - the car that they need in order to work.
Unarmed black people are still routinely killed by police who aren't even charged with a crime and when they are charged, they are rarely convicted.
Sunday morning still overwhelmingly the most segregated hour of the week. [cnn.com]
And public schools have been re-segregating [washingtonpost.com] to the point that we are almost as bad as it was before separate but equal was struck down.