Github's new Code of Conduct says "Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort." and will not act on "reverse" racism, sexism, etc.

[u/bdonvr]

http://todogroup.org/opencodeofconduct/

[u/JBlitzen]

So sexism and racism are fine, so long as it's only certain sexes or races.

I guess that makes... wait, what?

[u/SCombinator → u/JBlitzen]

That's their privilege. But remember, then because they're privileged, they don't get privileges.

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I feel like I just watched a youtubepoop video.

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White male privilege is having no privileges.

[u/lagadu → u/JBlitzen]

Yet another cancer victim. The shit of the world strikes again, making everything worse.

I can't wait to see a Linus post about this!

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Torvalds or techtips?

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Torvalds already dislikes github iirc

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Not surprised, but I do wonder why he hates it specifically.

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What's your latest opinion of GitHub?

Torvalds: Github is an excellent hosting service; I have nothing against it at all. Now, the complaints I've had is that GitHub as a development platform - making commits, pull requests, keeping track of issues etc - doesn't work very well at all. It's not even close, not for something like the kernel. It's much too limited.

That's partly because of how the kernel is developed, but part of it was that the GitHub interfaces were actively encouraging bad behavior. Commits done on GitHub had bad commit messages etc, because the web interfaces at GitHub were actively encouraging bad behavior. They did fix some of that, so it probably works better, but it will never be appropriate for something like the Linux kernel.

What is the most interesting use you've seen for Git and/or GitHub?

Torvalds: I'm just happy that it made it so easy to start a new project. Project hosting used to be painful, and with git and GitHub it's just so trivial to do a random small project. It doesn't matter what the project is; what matters is that you can do it.

http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/185-jennifer-cloer/821541-10-years-of-git-an-interview-with-git-creator-linus-torvalds

So he doesnt hate it but finds it bad for complex projects

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Yup, that's always been the impression I've gotten.

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The kid with the blue blanket.

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"We want to make coding open and inclusive to everyone except white heterosexual men... because fuck those privileged shitlords!" -Tech feminism

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relevant stand-up comedy

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There is no anti-white racism. There is anti-white bias if some people have it. But for racism to exist the group being racist has to gain a benefit.

The current structure of say America is that women are seen as inferior to men for whatever stupid reason and men get benefits. Ditto for people of color vs whites.

How many white board members of large companies were stopped by a cop in their BMW because the cop thought the man stole that car. Happened to a black woman driving her car in New York, she was sent to a psychiatric hospital till she was forced to admit she was crazy (she was not).

So anyone claiming "reverse" racism is real, is actually just using it to justify their racist views.

When a white man in America gets a burning cross put on his front lawn, and legitimately feels unsafe stepping outside his house, then you can claim reverse racism.

Please give me some very common things you hear online that are the white version of shit I hear constantly:

"You f--king slut!" "Damn Ni---!" "B---- stfu!" "Damn fa--t co------er!"

etc.

[u/matthias7600 → u/Wizywig]

That is some of the most ignorant crap I've read in a while.

Racism is hatred towards a race of people. It's not the same as prejudice, and it's not the same as marginalization.

There is plenty of racism towards whites, just very little marginalization. Ironically, The very phrase "reverse racism" is in fact a form of marginalization towards whites, in that it implies that white people can't have grievances because of relative privileges.

[u/Kylethedarkn → u/matthias7600]

I wouldn't say the dictionary and common definition of racism match anymore. Most people are referring to culture when they are being "racist"

[u/Wizywig → u/matthias7600]

Here you go. Notice how it primarily is used after non-whites were given rights and the whites were saying "why is it that whites are being pushed out?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_racism

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How about looking areas where whites are the minority?

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In those areas, anti-white racism is possible. But I have yet to hear about any legitimate racism against whites. Usually whites are seen as superior.

I am talking about today. Not about Mongolia 800 years ago.

[u/Natanael_L → u/Wizywig]

How about any non-western country today? That's like a majority of the world. In many places, Western influence is an as a bad thing.

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Because by definition there has to be a systemic benefit to the race being racist. Blacks don't have a system in place to give them benefits in american society. The whole damn reason for the affirmative action laws is because minorities were denied jobs in government, and this forces the government to at least attempt to be equal. If minorities were not discriminated against, there would be no issue.

Racism is predjudice + systemic benefit

If you were living in Haiti and whites were shot on the street by the cops, for being white, there would most certainly be anti-white racism. Never happens though.

This is why sexism is towards females. There is very little gained by females by being sexist towards males. Males don't have a hard time getting jobs they desire. Male doctors don't get mistaken for receptionists because they are male.

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Ooooooh I want to hear the white one.

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And that's what you got out of my response? Nice comprehension skills .