I think Andrea's post perfectly illustrates the risk to WMF and WM affiliates of embracing political positions outside the core mission of the projects. The number of worthy causes is near infinite; every time you endorse one you please some people and make many other people wonder why you considered other causes less important.
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 4:09 AM Andrea Zanni zanni.andrea84@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all, I'll ask forgiveness in advance for starting a probable flame.
I support WMIL stance: equity is absolutely within our Wikimedia values, and supporting LGBTQ rights is always a good thing.
But I cannot help but see the enormity of omission here: the Israeli government just passed a law proclaming Israel a "Jewish" nation-state¹, and it's bombing for the n-th time Gaza, where over 1 million people are sieged.
It saddens me a bit that WMIL is getting political, stepping "outside" our wiki box for a good but still controversial topic, with a minor impact, while major things are happening. Purely in terms of numbers the scale of the latter are huge: the scale of the first much smaller. I see a double standard (Jewish LGBQTs important; Arab-Israelis non important) which is directly against the equity we we're talking about in the first place.
Again, sorry, but I couldn't shut up this time.
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