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Re: USA dominion: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

Rob Evans <internetplumber@gmail.com> Fri, 24 July 2020 23:19 UTC

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From: Rob Evans <internetplumber@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:18:52 +0100
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Subject: Re: USA dominion: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
To: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
Cc: Joseph Touch <touch@strayalpha.com>, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>, IETF Discussion Mailing List <ietf@ietf.org>
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> Even for any non-american native english
> speaker, i wonder how much they feel that there is a need to update the language
> used by the IETF for what arguably is primarily a US social problem: Dealing with
> a still seemingly not well enough handled history of afro-american racism and slavery.

FWIW, I am not from the US, my native language is en-GB (with a little
bit of "cy"), and I disagree with this characterisation of the problem
to solve within the IETF.

Cheers,
Rob

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