Re: [Gendispatch] Meetings summary

[Christian Huitema <[e-mail]>]

On 10/16/2020 6:02 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> Systemic racism is a somewhat poorly defined and amorphous term which
> is at the same time both unfalsifiable and yet gets conflated across
> to broader racism which is a very strong accusation of awfulness


You may want to walk that back. You have done a good job of producing a
document that sticks to practical issues and avoids unnecessary
controversy, but here you are somewhat gratuitously digging into the
people using the "systemic racism" language. Believe it or not, but
there are definitely issues, at least in the USA, that contribute to
"keeping down" a fraction of the population. There is a fair amount of
good research about this, for example the documentation of the effects
of "redlining" in "The Color of Law" by Richard Bronstein. Downplaying
all that as "unfalsifiable" or "an accusation of awfulness" is not going
to help bring IETF consensus.

Your summary would be much better if you just removed that paragraph
altogether, or replaced it with something much more neutral.

-- Christian Huitema