[OSM-talk] Call to Take Action and Confront Systemic Offensive Behavior in the OSM Community

[ndrw]

On 18/12/2020 11:06, Martin Constantino–Bodin wrote:
> Er… Please read this article: 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_racism 

This article acknowledges the existence of reverse racism, describes its 
history and reasons its proponents are using. Please do not use it as a 
justification for reverse racism, encyclopedia articles are not for 
promoting opinions.

In practice, all racist ideologies, including these that have ended in 
atrocities, had some kind of justification behind them. Reverse racism 
is not an exception.

> This call is not a hate speech against white-people.
>
The proposal was all about forcing governance changes to codify 
discrimination against some members of our community. This is a 
definition of systemic discrimination and we still have not seen a word 
of apology for it.


To be clear, I strongly support your goals but the means are totally 
unacceptable. For start, they stand against everything you are trying to 
fix. They violate our governance by demanding that the OSMF board 
implements changes it was not elected for. Finally, they are outright 
illegal in many countries we operate in, places that currently benefit 
from a democratic, grass-root project OSM is.


-ndrw