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Words are important. Diversity is important. Changing words like "meritocracy" does not improve diversity. It is the illusion of diversity, a feel-good opportunity for well-intentioned bystanders. The true intent is for a small group of highly politically motivated people to gain more control. The governance documents are about control and changing those documents means a shift in control. The movement we are seeing…
you sound like a conspiracy theorist. it is changing an inappropriate word, not shifting control over the entire company Mozilla. i doubt you care about diversity or improving the quality of the open source project
Meritocracy is only an inappropriate word if you believe that certain groups of people will never be able to participate on a level playing field.
That notion is of course incredibly condescending towards members of those groups.
The goal should be to advance everyone in the meritocracy through outreach and training, not to abandon the value of meritocracy.
The proposal itself makes it clear the change is merely for cosmetic purposes, to make certain people feel better, not actually increase diversity.
If you care about diversity you should oppose the notion that certain groups of people are incapable of participating on their own terms.
This is about empowering a small but loud group of political activists who want to remake a software project to fit their fringe world view.
Do you care more about affirming their politics or the quality of software?