<div dir="ltr">y'know al, on irc no one is a white male het.  i believe the mentor had something to say about that.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Al Billings <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:albill@openbuddha.com" target="_blank">albill@openbuddha.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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No, he said that whoever tries to create diversity in hackerspaces is an activist going against the hacker culture in place and any minorities that come to the space should accommodate themselves to that culture or leave, rather than try to make the spaces more welcoming to people that aren’t the norm there (which is where the “white, male, het” thing comes in).</div>
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Al</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div> <div style="color:gray"><hr>From: <span style="color:black">Red Davies</span> <a href="mailto:noiddicle@gmail.com" target="_blank">Red Davies</a><div class="im">
<br>Reply: <span style="color:black">Hackerspaces General Discussion List</span> <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org" target="_blank">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br></div>Date: <span style="color:black">January 26, 2014 at 7:29:25 PM</span><br>
To: <span style="color:black">Hackerspaces General Discussion List</span> <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org" target="_blank">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><div class="im"><br>Subject: <span style="color:black"> Re: [hackerspaces] Safe Space Policies? <br>
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Also, Al - I think you did Matt a disservice when you paraphrased him poorly by suggesting that he wanted only white, het, male geeks.</div><div class="im"><div style="text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-align:start;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;text-transform:none;font-size:13px;white-space:normal;font-family:helvetica;word-spacing:0px">
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He said no such thing.</div></div></div></span></blockquote><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"> <div><span style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"></span>-- <br>Al Billings<br><a href="http://makehacklearn.org" target="_blank">http://makehacklearn.org</a><div>
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