On 12/5/06, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Puppy wrote:
Reverse discrimination would be (for example) if women admins were promoted on a basis of lower community support, in order to achieve a more balanced ratio - a process often referred to as affirmative action, and strongly supported by many.
This is all semantic quibbling. The basic situation is simply this; Wikimedia has a mailing list for the discussion of editing Wikipedia, and I am not permitted to join this mailing list because I happen to be male (a "condition" that has no affect whatsoever on my editing, and which is only known because years back I decided to use my real name instead of some uninformative pseudonym).
That is discrimination. Whether it's "reverse" of not is of no concern to me, the effect is exactly the same.
Not any more. The list has been moved to Wikia. Moot point, hooray! Let's move on, nothing to see here, yadda yadda.
This is not discrimination. Unless you consider allowing
women to feel safe is discrimination.
And _this_ is pure tripe. Do you really think that my position is that I don't want women to feel safe? If that's what you're implying here I'm quite offended and suggest you retract it immediately. I've said nothing remotely of the sort.
Umm.... (looking desperately to change the direction of the conversation....) How about those Nazi userboxes?