cutting off their nose

Posted Oct 28, 2025 12:04 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: cutting off their nose by jhe
Parent article: Python Software Foundation withdraws security-related grant proposal

> Being disadvantaged is difficult to measure directly, so the these programs have to rely on proxy measurements.

It's incomplete, not perfect either, not possible in every situation and not mutually exclusive but how about this extraordinary idea: gauging disadvantaged people by their... lack of money!? Too direct and not enough virtue signaling? Suspiciously successful in some other countries?

Note the past decades of affirmative action in college admissions have been called "affirmative action for the rich" by the NY Times which isn't exactly leaning on the right side:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/podcasts/the-daily/col... + many more articles on that topic.

PS: I totally understand why the PSF cannot take such a high risk.