What happened to Mr. Floyd is a tragedy. This just comes off poorly though, no matter how well-intentioned. Understood that you want to show the world you care. This just seems small, pointless, and unsubstantial. Why not have a button that solicits donations instead of crippling functionality that somebody expects to be there?
Why? The vast majority of people don't live in the USA, don't have any influence over it and just want to get on with their job. Or would you like it if a whole bunch of websites you relied on started disappearing because of some political fight in the EU.
Because it inconveniences and reaches people that otherwise are not impacted or avoid getting involved. Documentation is still available on Github - so really just a very little minor inconvenience.
I think that this is a nice gesture. For those who are puzzled, I think that they’re just trying to help us to keep our work and programming in perspective by providing a reminder where we might not expect it. If you really need to read the docs you can do it on github. Think of it as a PSA, maybe.
So I can read the documents on github but not on the website at the moment where instead money is being soliciting to match $10,000 in React donations to Black Lives Matter, The Equal Justice Initiative, and NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.
George Floyd is an instance of a very, very difficult video to watch. Even when you’ve been desensitized to watching people be violently subdued under seemingly peaceful conditions, the absolute lack of humanity of his actions is undeniable.
There are also other events that happened last week: the murder of Breonna Taylor by plain clothes cops in a no-knock raid where her boyfriend called the cops that murdered her to report “someone just broke in and shot my girlfriend”.
Then Ahmad Arbery, who was shot by an ex-cop and his son in a “citizens arrest” gone wrong in a style reminiscent of Jim-crow era lynching.
All of this happened in a week, under a blatantly white supremacist presidency, during a pandemic with 25% unemployment where you might have gotten a $1200 stimulus check, after the populist, anti-racist candidate was shoved out the primary by another president who did nothing (that worked) after protests of police brutality. The rage is palpable.
This actually happened across several months, but much of it did become public within a very short period of time. Breonna Taylor was shot near the end of February, Ahmaud Arbery a few weeks later, and George Floyd was murdered around 2.5 months following that. Unfortunately these sorts of events happen far too often and don't always gain the widespread attention they should in a timely manner.
Without negating either of these two comments I do think it is alarming the degree to which the US corporate media are capricious in their coverage of these types of incidents. As the link I posted claimed, there are currently thousands of 'news' stories about the unfortunate Floyd's demise but little over time of many other similar incidents regardless of race, situation etc. This massive inconsistency leads me to suspect perhaps there is a coverage agenda here, whipping an already massively stressed population into a state of rage and anxiety, and giving black bloc and other bad actors the media coverage they crave during this era of soft and muzzled martial law.
Raising money for organizations that may be a remedy could be a good idea but could also further inflame a media whipped up holocaust
> there are currently thousands of 'news' stories about the unfortunate Floyd's demise but little over time of many other similar incidents regardless of race, situation etc
This seems disingenous and actually a bit insensitive. I'm a white man, but I know white privilege exists. Everytime a black person leaves the home and sees a police officer they get PTSD not because they're guilty but because they think no matter what the cop thinks they already are guilty for something or will try and pin something on them, and it's not some irrational fear, it's seated in decades of them doing JUST that.
Common examples of white privilege include the following phrases:
- White lives matter too
- All lives matter
- "But what about black on black crime"
- Not all white people....
- I'm not privileged, I'm poor
- White people are discriminated against too...
Black lives matter isn't saying only Black lives matter, but that Black lives matter too, as in they're not animals like they're treated by police officers, and if you don't think it happens then you're simply blind or you don't care because you're prejudiced or showing blatant racism.
Why would this be a good thing? Why not leave the docs up to help further educate people, but put a banner on top of the site to show respect like Hacker News does?
You can call attention more so by reserving a nice area of at the top of the page and logo while still encouraging people to come and learn. Now people will just go there and leave. I can't see how this would get people to care or care more?
My biggest issue with this is the assumption that racism is involved. Two of the officers involved are not white and the only "evidence" I have seen that Chauvin is racist is a picture of another person.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 72.9 ms ] threadWhat happened to Mr. Floyd is a tragedy. This just comes off poorly though, no matter how well-intentioned. Understood that you want to show the world you care. This just seems small, pointless, and unsubstantial. Why not have a button that solicits donations instead of crippling functionality that somebody expects to be there?
This makes the maintainer feel better and that's it. Pure theater.
A donation to an anti police brutality legal fund would actually accomplish something. End qualified immunity.
Lemmings and their moral posturing.....
Why now when there are so many examples of heavy handed policing in the USA all the time? Some context: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-06-01/lies-led-looting
There are also other events that happened last week: the murder of Breonna Taylor by plain clothes cops in a no-knock raid where her boyfriend called the cops that murdered her to report “someone just broke in and shot my girlfriend”.
Then Ahmad Arbery, who was shot by an ex-cop and his son in a “citizens arrest” gone wrong in a style reminiscent of Jim-crow era lynching.
All of this happened in a week, under a blatantly white supremacist presidency, during a pandemic with 25% unemployment where you might have gotten a $1200 stimulus check, after the populist, anti-racist candidate was shoved out the primary by another president who did nothing (that worked) after protests of police brutality. The rage is palpable.
Edit: spelling
This seems disingenous and actually a bit insensitive. I'm a white man, but I know white privilege exists. Everytime a black person leaves the home and sees a police officer they get PTSD not because they're guilty but because they think no matter what the cop thinks they already are guilty for something or will try and pin something on them, and it's not some irrational fear, it's seated in decades of them doing JUST that.
Common examples of white privilege include the following phrases:
- White lives matter too
- All lives matter
- "But what about black on black crime"
- Not all white people....
- I'm not privileged, I'm poor
- White people are discriminated against too...
Black lives matter isn't saying only Black lives matter, but that Black lives matter too, as in they're not animals like they're treated by police officers, and if you don't think it happens then you're simply blind or you don't care because you're prejudiced or showing blatant racism.
You can call attention more so by reserving a nice area of at the top of the page and logo while still encouraging people to come and learn. Now people will just go there and leave. I can't see how this would get people to care or care more?
Just my opinion.
Thanks for your thoughtful answer.
Also the docs on github are old, deprecated aka useless.
I"ll never use react router again if I cant help it.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/make-whites-great-again-ha...
Com'on!