Three month suspension for a Core Developer

Three month suspension for a Core Developer(discuss.python.org)

4 points by prakashqwerty 70 days ago | 3 comments

zahlman 70 days ago |

Ah, you only heard about it now?

https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestr... discusses how deceptive the descriptions of the violations are.

> Defending “reverse racism” and “reverse sexism”, concepts not backed by empirical evidence

While the post discusses that the suspended developer didn't even do that, calling them "not backed by empirical evidence" is simply false. A few examples:

Over/under-representation by race in the Ivy League (as of 2023): https://archive.org/details/ivy_league

At Harvard, an Asian candidate in the eighth highest academic decile had 5.1% chance of admittance, compared to 7.5% for white, 22.9% for Hispanic, and 44.5% for black applicants: https://nypost.com/2023/06/29/supreme-court-affirmative-acti...

Toronto university’s medical school to keep 75% of spots for DEI applicants: https://www.westernstandard.news/eastern/toronto-universitys...

Teachers discriminate in favor of children with a migration background over German children when issuing grades : https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/bildung/schulnoten-und-migra...

Illegal immigrant-only scholarships at five US universities: https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of...

In France, students are given exams that are graded blind (not knowing which student took it) and exams graded by a teacher who knows who took the exam. The exams measure the same knowledge and abilities. Boys are graded lower when the grader knows they are boys: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02727...

Disguising sex on application forms reduced the likelihood of women being shortlisted: https://reason.com/2019/10/22/orchestra-study-blind-audition...

zahlman 70 days ago | |

> While the post discusses that the suspended developer didn't even do that, calling them "not backed by empirical evidence" is simply false.

Before even getting to that, we have to address the fact that these aren't the terms used by the people pointing out the phenomenon; not to mention figure what what it should mean for a "concept" to be "backed" by evidence. Of course these phenomena exist, and that existence is evidenced; but to expect "evidence" to support grouping those things together, or choosing a term for that group, etc., is a category error.