Accessibility First DevRel. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
I am not going to wander into "woke" etc. as I know that my ideology is not a good fit here and I do not want to muddy the water on the point I am making by bringing other things into the mix (but I do agree with you on most points - I am centre with possibly even a slight right lean in some people's eyes! Hell I agree with every word that people like Thomas Sowell say and most stuff he says would be super offensive here.)
But this time my objection and criticism is not driven by beliefs, politics etc. It is driven by experience and observation in the real world.
I would rather the community moderated itself here than the mods and the DEV team as this is one thing that we need a:
Person A: "that isn't acceptable language"
Person B: "but it is a preferred term in my Country, please do not take offence"
Person A: "could we perhaps use the term...X"
Person B: "sure, as long as not in this context"
type of understanding on as that is how we arrive at terms that we can use internationally.
Anyway I have written too many essays, I better go get some work done!!
P.s. the reply to your reply to my reply thing is always interesting 😋🤣
Agree to all of that ... they shouldn't be policing the site in a witch hunt for "wrong" words or whatever (who decides that?), what should be the core principle is - do people act and communicate with respect and empathy? If we see that they do then fine, we're done. If we see they don't - yes then we can call them out, I'm all for it.
And, please please please, let's stay far away from politics and ideology here at dev.to, it's toxic and divisive and it has no place here - too many realms of life and society are already poisoned by endless political debate - we need less politics and ideology, not more.
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I am not going to wander into "woke" etc. as I know that my ideology is not a good fit here and I do not want to muddy the water on the point I am making by bringing other things into the mix (but I do agree with you on most points - I am centre with possibly even a slight right lean in some people's eyes! Hell I agree with every word that people like Thomas Sowell say and most stuff he says would be super offensive here.)
But this time my objection and criticism is not driven by beliefs, politics etc. It is driven by experience and observation in the real world.
I would rather the community moderated itself here than the mods and the DEV team as this is one thing that we need a:
type of understanding on as that is how we arrive at terms that we can use internationally.
Anyway I have written too many essays, I better go get some work done!!
P.s. the reply to your reply to my reply thing is always interesting 😋🤣
Agree to all of that ... they shouldn't be policing the site in a witch hunt for "wrong" words or whatever (who decides that?), what should be the core principle is - do people act and communicate with respect and empathy? If we see that they do then fine, we're done. If we see they don't - yes then we can call them out, I'm all for it.
And, please please please, let's stay far away from politics and ideology here at dev.to, it's toxic and divisive and it has no place here - too many realms of life and society are already poisoned by endless political debate - we need less politics and ideology, not more.