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Comprehensive: of broad scope

Comprehensive: of broad scope

Posted Apr 11, 2012 11:09 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Comprehensive: of broad scope by samth
Parent article: Debian's diversity statement

(a) It's obviously false -- Debian doesn't (at least intentionally) welcome people who are are jerks to everyone.

Hence the qualification as long as they interact constructively with our community which is pretty reasonable.

If a woman complained about that, there's a big difference between having a policy that says "we welcome everyone" and one that says "hostile behavior to women is not ok"

The "Hostile behavior to women is not ok" statement does not belong in a diversity statement. Rather, it belongs in a code of conduct that prohibits hostile behavior to anyone, sexism, racism, etc, etc.


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