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They’re basically fancy ways of saying “non white”.

There’s a use case for making that distinction but it’s a lot narrower than expecting people to self-identify in those terms.

Which, within that use case (e.g talking about wide and systemic oppression by white-led cultures) I guess that could be like the argument some people from certain countries have made that “Third World” is useful term because it does retain the history of its useage, whereas when it’s exchanged for terms like LDCs>Global South>LICs>etc that sort of obscures the historical material conditions and relational aspects which inform the present. Or something.

Thanks, those were both really good articles!

Seems “BAME” is being rejected mostly for qualities it shares with the term “PoC”.

Pretty sure the UK term was BAME, but US culture is pretty pervasive.

Ha ha ha no.

You’re probably thinking about the time he had a disagreement with the Chief Rabbi. That got resolved.

His conservative opponent in the mayoral race tried to parlay that into a thing though.

Nice one!

If it had happened like in the 1980s or something it would have been forgiveable but it was like 2006, at that point we all already knew climate change was real.

I never really forgave them for the original ManBearPig climat change denialism.

Sounds like a dogwhistle to nazis about their “replacement theory” nonsense.

He honestly sounds more creepy not less creepy after that part.

users and contributors need to stop feeling entitled to maintainers’ unpaid labor and time

And the rest of us need to stand up for maintainers against bullies.

This article’s compatible with that. The tldr is as usual brother laser, any model.

I too am outraged by the outrage.