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muenzpraeger / eslint-plugin-inclusive-language

An ESLint plugin to raise awareness for using inclusive language not only in your codebase, but in life.
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Documentation on who is making decisions #2

Open D-Gould opened 4 years ago

D-Gould commented 4 years ago

Thank you so much for creating this project! It's a really cool idea and I look forward to using it in the future. I'm wondering if you could include some info in the README about who is making decisions about what words to replace, and how those decisions are being made? It would be great to see these decisions being informed by people who are impacted the most (in the case with the 4 words so far, Black folks) and what accountability will look like. Thanks and apologies if there is a better spot to post this!

muenzpraeger commented 4 years ago

Great idea, @D-Gould!

Let me think about some proper wording, that will also acknowledge different sizes and shapes of organizations. For example in the company that I work for we have many different stakeholders like our Office of Equality working a lot on these definitions at the moment. Which would be really different compared to a 10 person company.

What would you think about having a list of "reference" guides? I know that many big companies in tech are working on guides, and making informed decisions for them, which I think will guide many others.

dr-c-abm commented 4 years ago

That's a great idea.

I've recently heard from multiple black people who didn't particularly like the fact that someone was trying to solidify a connection between the term "blacklist" and race. They wouldn't exactly approve of this library's default config.

There's a good chance of well-intentioned (mostly white, often privileged) people getting tangled up in some political agenda, so we should definitely be very transparent about this!

And sometimes people's true bias is revealed: https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/02/28/gorilla-statue-removed-after-complaints-it-was-racially-insensitive/

Be careful with loud screaming mobs! And certainly don't let them write the "reference" guides.

Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.