Why the focus on white people? What are non-black, non-white people supposed to take away from this?
And if we’re just picking up language from others around us, we can acknowledge that pretty much every word, every phrase, every syntactical or grammatical construct we use, we learned by observing others. And we don’t always have the ability to specifically attribute sources for where we learned what, so trying to gatekeep who can and can’t use particular phrases or words is going to be prone to errors. And ultimately futile.
thinking they are entitled to everything
This is a FOSS-focused community. The core idea here is that publishing and sharing ideas releases it out to the world, where the creator no longer controls who may use it, or how they may use it.
That’s why your position on who can or can’t use certain types of language seems so foreign. It’s directly contradicting some of the core values that this community is organized around.
Why the focus on white people? What are non-black, non-white people supposed to take away from this?
And if we’re just picking up language from others around us, we can acknowledge that pretty much every word, every phrase, every syntactical or grammatical construct we use, we learned by observing others. And we don’t always have the ability to specifically attribute sources for where we learned what, so trying to gatekeep who can and can’t use particular phrases or words is going to be prone to errors. And ultimately futile.
This is a FOSS-focused community. The core idea here is that publishing and sharing ideas releases it out to the world, where the creator no longer controls who may use it, or how they may use it.
That’s why your position on who can or can’t use certain types of language seems so foreign. It’s directly contradicting some of the core values that this community is organized around.