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Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Sun, 09 August 2020 06:55 UTC

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S Moonesamy wrote:

> The discussion (please see topic) in another venue, which is unrelated 
> to the IETF, turned into a United Stated v/s rest of the world 
> arguments.

That's incorrect. Most people in US are just comfortable to
say black/dark with negative meaning, against which some US
people (seemingly mostly whites) are arguing against trying
to use, in vain, IETF as a tool to validate their points.

IMHO, they should use better tool where opinions of whites
are unconditionally accepted.

						Masataka Ohta

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