| 4 Nov 2021 |
 @joepie91:pixie.town | jonringer: there's honestly nothing I can do with that comment, other than be concerned about what you mean with that. I don't feel like you're engaging with my point above | 17:28:22 |
 jonringer | There's a difference between moderation, and enforcing behaviors | 17:28:22 |
| @joepie91:pixie.town | Jonas Chevalier: "agenda" is a strange choice of words, but I've been pretty explicit about my intentions; I can repeat them explicitly though. I want the NixOS community to be a welcoming, inclusive and productive community, in which there is no tolerance for things like bigotry. | 17:29:36 |
 @zimbatm:numtide.com | We should stop using terms like "ideologies" which are too loaded. Having a set of principles we can follow to work together is not an ideology. | 17:29:45 |
| @joepie91:pixie.town | this is absolutely ideological, and I reject the notion that it isn't, because that only ever ends up being used to present some "rational" and "neutral" option that's actually just popular ideology masquerading as rationality | 17:30:44 |
| @zimbatm:numtide.com | In reply to @joepie91:pixie.town
Jonas Chevalier: "agenda" is a strange choice of words, but I've been pretty explicit about my intentions; I can repeat them explicitly though. I want the NixOS community to be a welcoming, inclusive and productive community, in which there is no tolerance for things like bigotry. Whenever I see terms like that, I get a very specific sense of "diversity", that is drawn along very specific lines | 17:30:52 |
| @joepie91:pixie.town | Jonas Chevalier: it is. that is why I mentioned the paradox of tolerance very early on, for example. | 17:31:11 |
| @joepie91:pixie.town | eg. I do not believe that people have a right to be a bigot | 17:31:22 |
| @zimbatm:numtide.com | this is the core of the disagreement I feel | 17:31:28 |
| @zimbatm:numtide.com | it comes down to how we view diversity, and what form it will take | 17:31:52 |
| @joepie91:pixie.town | but to be clear, these specifically drawn lines are chosen to maximize diversity in a 'quantifiable' sense | 17:32:14 |
| @joepie91:pixie.town | hold on, I am not wording this well | 17:32:36 |
| @zimbatm:numtide.com | whenever you say things like that, it feels exactly what people would denounce of being alt-left | 17:32:57 |
| @zimbatm:numtide.com | I think this is the last know to untie | 17:33:26 |
| @zimbatm:numtide.com | * I think this is the last knot to untie | 17:33:30 |
| @joepie91:pixie.town | so let's try defining that again:
what I care about as the end goal, is diversity in the sense that the community is a welcoming and productive place for people of as many different backgrounds, experiences, worldviews, and identities as possible.
what I see as an indispensable part of that, and this is where my lines are drawn, is not tolerating ideologies and behaviour which actively aim to oppose (rather than advance) that goal - and that includes bigotry, and a couple of other ideologies that are founded specifically on exclusion of anyone outside of a very specific identity
| 17:36:30 |
| @joepie91:pixie.town | you cannot have a functioning community (at scale) with both diversity and 'anti-diverse' ideology in coexistence, so one needs to go; and my choice for what needs to go is very definitively on the side of 'anti-diverse ideology' | 17:38:00 |
| @joepie91:pixie.town | my 'agenda', if you want to call it that, is that | 17:38:30 |
| @joepie91:pixie.town | (and I hope that it's clear that "anti-diverse" does not include "anti-anti-diverse" as a subset) | 17:39:17 |
| jonringer | At least in the US, a "bigot" is already just used as a "someone who doesn't agree with me" term | 17:39:22 |
| @joepie91:pixie.town | that is not the definition that I am using | 17:39:41 |
| jonringer | I know this is an international community. But "fascism" has also been diluted in a similar fasion | 17:40:00 |
| @joepie91:pixie.town | but I've also not found that definition to be widespread in moderation circles | 17:40:05 |
| jonringer | * I know this is an international community. But "fascism" has also been diluted in a similar fashion | 17:40:12 |
| jonringer | In reply to @joepie91:pixie.town
but I've also not found that definition to be widespread in moderation circles We have other words like discrimination | 17:40:34 |
| jonringer | and it's in RFC 114 | 17:40:47 |
| @joepie91:pixie.town | jonringer: I have had people arguing almost word-for-word at me what you are saying about 'bigotry', but about 'discrimination' :) | 17:41:15 |
| @joepie91:pixie.town | I don't think that a choice between 'bigotry' or 'discrimination' is going to matter for resolving this definition thing | 17:41:54 |
 tomberek | End goal: improve Nix based technology. That is the end goal. There may be intermediate or necessary things along the way, but the "Nix community" should view Nix as the end goal. Seems almost tautological. The end goal is not necessarily a "diverse community". It's probably helpful and beneficial, but not the end goal. | 17:43:46 |
| @joepie91:pixie.town | tomberek: I'm deliberately scoping the discussion to "healty community" as the end goal, to avoid tangents back into "the community should only be about tech, not politics" | 17:44:27 |
