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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: FSF leadership
From:       John Tapsell <johnflux () gmail ! com>
Date:       2019-09-19 12:48:28
Message-ID: CAHQ6N+qJkswLrHkk+4R=CD+hDaAyJstsvB8uMd+3b4M3KZfS3Q () mail ! gmail ! com
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Now using the term "race" is "copying racists"? Wtf?



On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, 21:37 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau, <kossebau@kde.org>
wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 19. September 2019, 10:31:38 CEST schrieb Christian Loosli:
> > I think that people should be elected into positions based on their
> > suitability for that position, which means that things like sex, gender,
> > race, cultural background, sexual orientation etc. pp.
>
> Race? Sounds like people are proposing there are human races?
>
> You might be reusing phrases here by people you think are out there for a
> more
> humanist world, but please reflect a bit on this very term, and if it
> makes
> sense to copycat that phrase and if it really represent what you are
> thinking.
> And if you are not actually copying terms and ideas of racists, when you
> might
> not be one.
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich
>
>
>

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<div dir="auto">Now using the term &quot;race&quot; is &quot;copying racists&quot;? \
Wtf?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div \
class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, 21:37 \
Friedrich W. H. Kossebau, &lt;<a \
href="mailto:kossebau@kde.org">kossebau@kde.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex">Am Donnerstag, 19. September 2019, 10:31:38 CEST schrieb \
Christian Loosli:<br> &gt; I think that people should be elected into positions based \
on their<br> &gt; suitability for that position, which means that things like sex, \
gender,<br> &gt; race, cultural background, sexual orientation etc. pp.<br>
<br>
Race? Sounds like people are proposing there are human races?<br>
<br>
You might be reusing phrases here by people you think are out there for a more <br>
humanist world, but please reflect a bit on this very term, and if it makes <br>
sense to copycat that phrase and if it really represent what you are thinking. <br>
And if you are not actually copying terms and ideas of racists, when you might <br>
not be one.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Friedrich<br>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div>



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