In the community meetings, we once again confirmed that the "typical" free software user does not exist. It's not "one size fits all," and there are as many particular use cases as there are free software users.
Instead say this:
Free software users recognizes that software freedom helps everyone, and within that, there is enormous and wonderful diversity of who uses free software and how they use it!
If your goal is to encourage participation or membership or whatever else, don't start out by s
Your version makes it sounds like they only want Liberals and left leaning folks to join the FSF. Our culture is already drastically split, failing to recognize that will only play into the division.
The FSF needs conservative members and voices as well, which in general they are kinda lacking in that regard. Left leaning folks tend to be good a change, and adaption, spotting problems in the system. While Right leaning folks tend to be more of the get it done, see the goal and stick to it, and if it works
Your version makes it sounds like they only want Liberals and left leaning folks to join the FSF.
That was not my intention at all. I am -- to say the least -- deeply skeptical of the modern left/woke enterprise. I also don't think that crowd has the only legitimate claim to diversity. The FSF can be welcoming to lots of different users and developers without adopting "progressive" ideology, and the kind of language I suggested should not be taken as code words for leftist ideas.
Diversity means you exclude non-transgender heterosexual white males.
Woke means that you just realized that you're a closet racist, and feeling an incredible sense of white guilt, you feel that you need to make up for it by denouncing everything you see as being racist, regardless of whether race actually has anything to do with it. For example, you'll denounce milk.
Don't say this:
Instead say this:
If your goal is to encourage participation or membership or whatever else, don't start out by s
Your version makes it sounds like they only want Liberals and left leaning folks to join the FSF. Our culture is already drastically split, failing to recognize that will only play into the division.
The FSF needs conservative members and voices as well, which in general they are kinda lacking in that regard. Left leaning folks tend to be good a change, and adaption, spotting problems in the system. While Right leaning folks tend to be more of the get it done, see the goal and stick to it, and if it works
Your version makes it sounds like they only want Liberals and left leaning folks to join the FSF.
That was not my intention at all. I am -- to say the least -- deeply skeptical of the modern left/woke enterprise. I also don't think that crowd has the only legitimate claim to diversity. The FSF can be welcoming to lots of different users and developers without adopting "progressive" ideology, and the kind of language I suggested should not be taken as code words for leftist ideas.
Diversity doesn't necessarily mean woke.
Diversity means you exclude non-transgender heterosexual white males.
Woke means that you just realized that you're a closet racist, and feeling an incredible sense of white guilt, you feel that you need to make up for it by denouncing everything you see as being racist, regardless of whether race actually has anything to do with it. For example, you'll denounce milk.
Gather round, children. It's story time.