Edit: having to make corrections. Speech to text isn’t capturing correctly.
I’m interested in how that looks though. We are past the age of institutional discrimination, what applies to the majority inherently applies to minorities today.
I am saying this as a minority who appreciates the paths that lead to my equality and having a voice that is equally heard as others.
Fist point I should make, this forum’s default is an anonymous status, so no one knows that you’re a minority unless you call attention to it, which you do have the right do. But how could they otherwise know to discriminate?
You have the right to be who you are and not be discriminated against which I agree.
I’m still not understanding how the current CoC which applies to everyone doesn’t help protect everyone currently. And why they need to specifically call out protections for minorities? I’m just not sure how the current CoC doesn’t do that already while still being applied to everyone equally.
So I need to understand personally what this protection looks like? How is it being applied?.
Respect is one a pillar of the CoC, so what is being added on top of that that specifically protects minorities. Honestly, it might just be semantics that is throwing people off. I think a clear definition of what it looks like what it means would go pretty far to calming people down, but so far everything has been vague.
And I’m saying this as someone who is experienced potential abuse of a “Protected Class” in the Enterprise world. Specifically when it comes to a dissenting opinion. I know this is anecdotal and I hate that I might be helping prejudiced people, but since I’ve seen it, I have to mention that some “protected classes” think that the only reason why you’re questioning or pushing back on their opinion is because they are a protected class, which honestly mostly isn’t true, just don’t like the idea.
So I definitely feel like we should be a “safe space”. It should be known that this is a safe space and I don’t want to bang the drum on the same point, but I think people are getting lost in the semantics of the language specifically because what’s inherently “protecting minorities” means we’re doing something extra. What extra is being done that the current CoC doesn’t already cover.
I think that would go a long way in helping people how it affects everyone in the community. Again, I’m saying this as a minority myself who understand definitely pre-1960s. It was important because literally discrimination was legal but we’re post-legal discrimination so I’m just trying to understand what protections looks like in today’s world.