On 17 May 2017, at 17:13, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
Because SIL is at least sensible enough to have the policy to change derogatory codes, while Congress Library is too white to be able to comprehend that.
You do not have any idea what you are talking about.
Fine. I don't think that one 80% white male 80% WASP institution should be in charge for something that affects the whole world.
The membership of the ISO 639 JAC is specified in the standardization documents and has nothing to do with skin colour, sex, or religion. This sort of rhetoric is just bullshit in the present context.
The code was assigned a long time ago. Standardizers are reluctant to change codes because the stability of standards is important. Your trying to whip this up into some sort of institutional or cultural prejudice against the speakers of Mapuche is unacceptable.
Michael, I will respond to this, but, please, keep in mind that you are just embarrassing yourself by forcing this issue.
You have raised issues of racism and imperialism and you have made baseless accusations about the RA for ISO 639.
The fact that you are ignoring the fact that it *matters* who is making *political* decisions is the part of not just ignorance, but of very white and very racist "expert" narrative. If you are not able to recognize that, just trust me that you should stop with that line of argumentation.
Melanin helps to protect us from UV radiation and to permit the production of Vitamin D.
I have explained to you MANY TIMES. Most of the ISO 639-2 codes were made many years ago. No one was trying to insult anyone. No one was trying to push an imperialist agenda. No one was looking at skin tone variation in Chile. They were trying to tag data for libraries. Do you understand this?
I have explained to you MANY TIMES as well that reluctance to change codes on the part of the JAC has to do with a concern for stability in encoding.
I ave informed you that I have spoken to the JAC, and I have supplied to you their response. They looked at this 5 years ago and were not minded at that time to destabilize encoding. They also said they would consider an application if one were submitted.
You persist in arguing with ME about it and all I have done is explain facts to you.
Learn.
Michael
PS. If you author anything, anything at all that attacks the JAC as you have done here, I will put my foot down on it going out with LangCom or WMF blessing.