▲ | lumpa 4 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
It is misinformation because it elides the context: white guys got virtually all the mentoring already, represented the absolute majority of core developers, held all the power in steering the language, etc. So what he's saying is: my personal efforts focus on helping those that currently don't get help, don't have a voice. White man are doing fine already, they can forget getting direct help from me because they, as a group, don't need it. So yeah, you can be upset that he's not offering to help those who, as a group, already have a path to getting into Python. Says a lot more about you though. | |||||||||||||||||
▲ | some_guy_nobel 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
So, it's okay for someone to say, "I won't help <race> <gender>, they can forget it", as long as <race>="white" and <gender>="male"? And how do you define mentoring? Clubs? Participation in class? Is an Italian man's participation in an open-source project equal to an American's? A Russian's? Why, because they're 'white'? Should a Swedish man then be barred from help? | |||||||||||||||||
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▲ | mixmastamyk 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Twenty-year Python+ dev here that hasn’t worked in a year and a half. We all need help once in a while. |