Re: Cultural differences and how to handle them

From	Zlatan Todoric <zlatan@riseup.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.project
Subject	Re: Cultural differences and how to handle them
Date	2019-07-16 10:30 +0200
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On 7/3/19 4:51 PM, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
>> In this discussion here we have two pretty distinct groups of people:
>>
>> The first group has the opinion that Debian should honor various
>> minorities, and that Debian in general should have also a political
>> mission.
>>
>> The second group is unhappy with people being honored by Debian for
>> non-technical reasons, and wants Debian in general to be a non-political
>> technical project.
>>
>> Easy to miss, but obvious once you are aware of it:
> I wish to posit the existence of a third group who are not partipating
> in this discussion.
>
> This group are simply too exhausted and bored of making the same
> refutations in these debates and have long given up trying. Indeed,
> they likely find themselves too physically and emotionally numb to
> invest in -project or lists outside their niche interests. They may
> have even made steps to distance themselves from Debian entirely due
> to low-level feelings of fatigue that they cannot put words to,
> compounded by having no desire to be associated with a certain
> retrograde culture that they perceive the Project projects.
>
> If asked to charecterise this thread, they may attempt to be objective
> by pointing out that dissecting the minutæ of (say) Hispanic culture
> or the «Historikerstreit» is a distraction at best, and might even
> charitibly concede that the thread is a dry satire of the "just asking
> questions" or the "tired arguments presented as an insightfully novel
> rebuttal" genres. However, the majority of their response would frankly
> not be to its advantage, let alone repeatable in polite company.
>
> This is all to say that I would issue a not-insignificant caution to
> all from making crass or otherwise premature overgeneralisations about
> who constitutes this esteemed Project.
>
>
> Regards,
>
I wish to reboot this - I think vast majority is the third group, so 
just vocal few (on different sides of every argument) are creating this 
feeling of uncertainty and discomfort.

I just wish I was able to craft such fine mail myself but I am proud 
that Chris did it.

Z

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                Re: Cultural differences and how to handle them Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2019-07-02 22:30 +0200
                Cultural differences and how to handle them Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2019-07-02 22:30 +0200
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