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Michael Larabel over at Phoronix brings us news of a stealth Social Justice coup over at FreeDesktop.org:
X.Org, GStreamer, Wayland, LibreOffice, Mesa, VA-API, Harfbuzz, and SPICE are among the many projects hosted by FreeDesktop.org that now appear to be on a contributor covenant / code of conduct.
The Contributor Covenant for those unfamiliar with it is trying to promote a code of conduct for open-source projects that is trying to promote diversity and equality of contributors to libre software projects. From the covenant's website, "Part of this problem [of "free, libre, and open source projects suffer from a startling lack of diversity, with dramatically low representation by women, people of color, and other marginalized populations"] lies with the very structure of some projects: the use of insensitive language, thoughtless use of pronouns, assumptions of gender, and even sexualized or culturally insensitive names."
The covenant states in part that those contributing should use welcoming and inclusive language, be respectful to others, showing empathy towards others, avoid insulting comments, and avoid inappropriate conduct. For the most part, it's basically common sense.
Now it seems this Contributor Covenant is being forced onto all FreeDesktop.org-hosted projects.
(Score: 2) by eravnrekaree on Monday April 10 2017, @03:26PM (15 children)
One of the funny things about the whole situation is many liberal corporations like Google are eager to bring in Muslims withe the most backwards ideas on women, you know, burqas an so forth, into the US and to bring them onto their campuses. Most American computer types I know are not at at all rude or condescending to women and always open to their involvement, ironically, yet these workers are most hated by corporate america, and the Muslim from third world who thinks women should not be allowed to go out alone seem to be held in high esteem by the Zuckerberg and Google types.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @04:42PM (14 children)
One of the funny things about the whole situation is many liberal corporations like Google are eager to bring in Muslims withe the most backwards ideas on women, you know, burqas an so forth,
Just how many burqa-wearing muslims have you seen in America?
I'm pretty sure it is zero.
For that matter, how many muslims do you know personally?
I'm pretty sure that number is also zero.
Turns out that even wearing a head-scarf, much less a freaking burqa is far from universal among muslims.
For example, Indonesia is the largest muslim majority country in the world and until recently basically nobody wore head-scarves.
Now its the hipster thing to do, a fashion trend like hats. Hijabs and high-heels [google.com] are common fashion accessories.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Monday April 10 2017, @05:05PM (13 children)
Just how many burqa-wearing muslims have you seen in America?
Depends where you are. Go shopping in Houston sometime, they are a regular feature of the landscape. Seen a few farther East along the Gulf Coast as far as New Orleans. Might be more extensive, that is just as far as I can claim direct visual confirmation.
Diversity + Proximity = War
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @05:49PM (8 children)
There's an infestation in Melbourne Beach, FL. I encounter them at the fishing dock and they creep me out. The way the women act, they might as well cover themselves in giant cardboard boxes.
Any sort of distinctive religious clothing serves to prevent integration. That's probably why they do it.
We need to fix our way-too-innocent first amendment so that we can deal with these issues. We won't, so we're doomed to a descent into extreme personal violence. I doubt my side will win, but I'm at least trying to help: made 11 kids so far, probably ending up as a Catholic/atheist mix.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Monday April 10 2017, @06:01PM (5 children)
Any sort of distinctive religious clothing serves to prevent integration.
That isn't always dangerous, after all the mainstream American culture IS diseased so trying to keep the worst of it off of you and your children is rational. We have a lot of the more harmless variety in the area, Mennonites for example. Good solid folk who don't want to cut my infidel neck. The problem is Islam; we don't have time for a Reformation and as is it is violently hostile to pretty much everyone, including other Muslims.
But the maxim I quoted would probably even hold for them if their numbers grew great enough, there would be war between the factions. Humans suck that way. Difference is I face that reality and propose policy that accords with what people actually are while the left believes humans can be perfected... with a big enough pyramid of skulls.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:57PM
The problem is Islam; we don't have time for a Reformation and as is it is violently hostile to pretty much everyone, including other Muslims.
As opposed to you who are violently hostile to all muslims but have never actually met a muslim in your life.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday April 10 2017, @10:23PM (3 children)
Mennonites for example. Good solid folk who don't want to cut my infidel neck.
jmorris! How do you think you know this? I am quite sure the Brethren would want to string you up, draw and quarter you, pull at your flesh with red hot pincers, and burn your bottom off in a raging auto de fe! Or they would if they were subject to your increasingly loony posts on SoylentNews.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @10:36PM (2 children)
Psychological projection at it's finest; "increasingly loony posts" indeed!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday April 11 2017, @08:44AM
Psychological projection at it's finest; "increasingly loony posts" indeed!
Oh, you have no idea! This is just what I think Pacifists might do to jmorris. My imagination tends to the darker side, more like, "50 Shades of jmorris". If I could, I would make jmorris face the fundamental indeterminancy of existance, the pure lack of being that allows beings like us to be present to the world. Only then would the pure "being-there-ness" of the "well-known-liberal-bias" of an absurd and irrational objective world have its full impact on the jmorris, causing him to realize that we all are not ever only what we are, we are not things, we are subjects, perceivers, persons, and each one of us, especially SJWs, are deserving of respect and even admiration for how we deal with a universe devoid of meaning and full of Right-wing Nut-jobs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @09:00AM
Vide locus Classicus:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
MINSTREL (singing):
Bravely bold Sir Robin, rode forth from Camelot.
He was not afraid to die, o Brave Sir Robin.
He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways.
Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin!
He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp,
Or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken.
To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned away,
And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin!
His head smashed in and his heart cut out,
And his liver removed and his bowels unplugged,
And his nostrils ripped and his bottom burned off,
And his penis--
ROBIN: That's -- that's, uh, that's enough music for now, lads.
Not projection, Cultural reference, you Phillistine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:49PM (1 child)
Any sort of distinctive religious clothing serves to prevent integration. That's probably why they do it.
And yet, once again reality's well-known liberal bias doesn't cooperate with the crazy.
Alan Manning and Sanchari Roy, economists at the London School of Economics, kick-started the literature on cultural assimilation with their 2007 paper testing whether Muslim immigrants in the U.K. assimilated any more slowly than other immigrants. Maybe, they conceded, policy interventions were needed if cultural assimilation of some groups was not fast enough.
They concluded, however, that “we find no evidence for a culture clash in general, and one connected with Muslims in particular.” In other words, Muslim immigrants assimilate no slower than do any other immigrants.
That conclusion was called into question the next year when economics professors Alberto Bisin, Eleanora Patacchini, Thierry Verdier, and Yves Zenou published their paper (ungated version here) “Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration?” in the Journal of the European Economic Association. The authors criticized Manning and Roy’s metric for integration and proposed their own, along with a model to test for group variation. After conducting their analysis, they concluded that, “Muslims integrate less and more slowly than non-Muslims.”
However, when a team at Stockholm University attempted to replicate Bisin’s paper in 2011, they discovered a coding error in the original analysis. They wrote, “our examination of the data using their variable definitions and the same set-up indicates that their claims about differences between Muslims and non-Muslims[…]does not hold.” Bisin’s team tried to respecify their model (a red flag) to resuscitate their findings but even then, conceded that their revised findings were “less clear-cut.”
— Do Muslim Immigrants Assimilate? [niskanencenter.org]
Yeah, it turns out that religious garb does not prevent the wearer from assimilating although it can cause the beholder to be less willing to accept their assimilation. You know, by going around complaining that people who just want to live their own lives "creep them out."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @07:15PM
oh yeah, muslims are really known for just minding their own business and practicing their "religion" in peace. you're fucking stupid and brainwashed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:04PM
Diversity + jmorris = War
FTFY!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @06:51PM
Depends where you are. Go shopping in Houston sometime, they are a regular feature of the landscape.
Yeah, right. Dumbass doesn't even know the difference between a burqa and a headscarf.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @08:32AM (1 child)
[begin coded message] SJW Task Force, jmorris Division, Special Tracking Squad. Special Report. Geo-location details leaked by an anonymous source on the internets, namely, jmorris. Houston. Seems like they have a problem, and it is jmorris. Previous operative have suggested a Texas location for the jmorris, based solely on lack of intelligence and proclivity for conspiracy theories. Now horse's mouth near confirmation. Please advise on how to proceed. [end coded message]
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{ Um, could someone over there at SJW Headquarters do something about the secure messaging protocol? Seems we are leaking all over SoylentNews. jmorris may now be appraised of where he lives. }
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @07:22PM
He's already leaked the location of his home base. [soylentnews.org]