we fully recognize that white supremacy and police brutality is a global problem.
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It would be wrong for us to ignore the unearned privilege that exists in Node.js: much of the project leadership is white, and a majority are men. We are and have been systematically complicit in perpetuating the issues that led to where we are now.
I actually think most of what's going on right now is an outrage and am strongly against the black lives matter movement. Note, I am not a racist person I just have not seen evidence within several orders of magnitude to warrant this wreckless behavior.
node.js has about as much business making political statements like these as it does trying to make npm the defacto package manager for client-side JavaScript.
Any person or organization can choose to make a political statement. Why not node.js?
In this case, I happen to agree with their statement and you don't. But, even if the opposite were true, I would still support the right for anyone to publicize their political beliefs.
I am not suggesting that you cannot act against someone's "wrong" belief. If I was significantly against this message posted by node.js, I have the choice to not use node.js anymore.
I'm confused by some comments here. Speaking out about one evil isn't warranted if there is another that could also be addressed? This flavor of whataboutism is not helping anyone is it?
I am not sure who is harmed in them talking about inclusion and recognition of people who have suffered systemic disadvantage or loss. They are not rallying people up to riot. And even if you don't like the violence which happens at some protests (which I wouldn't like either) there is much more to the idea than the riots which everyone is so focused on. Discrediting the movement because of violence caused by few is a shallow perspective which doesn't address the problem that the movement wanted to solve in the first place.
edit: I see comments vanishing in case anyone is wondering who I was referring to
I totally agree. Choosing to focus on a subset of the problem first does not discredit the whole problem. I would have thought tech workers would understand this better than the rest.
I don’t need to hear about BlackLivesMatter from the Node.js team. I really don’t like this modern world of people and organizations bringing their “whole selves” to every interaction.
This feels really weird. I don't think it's a good idea for open source organizations to be political like this. I think getting more diversity of contributors to Node is a laudable goal but I don't see why those efforts can't be handled externally to the offical Node org.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 43.2 ms ] threadwe fully recognize that white supremacy and police brutality is a global problem.
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It would be wrong for us to ignore the unearned privilege that exists in Node.js: much of the project leadership is white, and a majority are men. We are and have been systematically complicit in perpetuating the issues that led to where we are now.
node.js has about as much business making political statements like these as it does trying to make npm the defacto package manager for client-side JavaScript.
In this case, I happen to agree with their statement and you don't. But, even if the opposite were true, I would still support the right for anyone to publicize their political beliefs.
edit: I see comments vanishing in case anyone is wondering who I was referring to