maple classic™ @squirrel@computerfairi.es

@squirrel @zangetsu_MG and - here is the best part for you - this is literally as simple as, when someone points out that a person who's not white, cishet, or male has done something noteworthy, saying "awesome, good for them", EXACTLY LIKE YOU WOULD FOR A WHITE CISHET MAN.

@squirrel @zangetsu_MG and - here is the best part for you - this is literally as simple as, when someone points out that a person who's not white, cishet, or male has done something noteworthy, saying "awesome, good for them", EXACTLY LIKE YOU WOULD FOR A WHITE CISHET MAN.

@zangetsu_MG @squirrel you are supposed to realize that as long as society AT LARGE penalizes people who are not white cishet men, and demands that they perform at a higher level just to be considered equal, we HAVE to take time to recognize their accomplishments; that's the ONLY way to make sure that eventually society at large DOESN'T systematically overvalue white cishet maleness.

@squirrel @zangetsu_MG you are supposed to realize that saying "I only care about their performance" opens the door for discrimination, because bias is often invisible to the people judging performance, and so history demonstrates that when presented with a white cishet man who's done X and someone who's not a white cishet man - on any axis - who's done an identical X, people will judge the white cishet man's X to be better than the competition.

@zangetsu_MG @squirrel you are supposed to realize that people who are not cishet white men are not well-represented in the history of computing, and that the farther the distance from "cishet white man", the less representation they get - and that this lack of representation is not proportionate to the percentage of the general population which they compose.

reminder that Wendy Carlos https://social.mecanis.me/media/M2C9zDaemw7SAkx-xyE https://social.mecanis.me/media/-Eanqga7ldVWaiI10lo https://social.mecanis.me/media/05Pb7kjthVny7vhIwUM