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I've been trying to stay out of the #OSMF Board election, because as a board member, I'll be working with 3 of the candidates.
But Frederik is way wrong here.
cf. my reply https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2020-December/085723.html
🧵 (FYI email it replies to jokes about sexual assault 😬)
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There are many examples of people excusing how Tr*mp acted pre-'16 election, claiming he's be “presidential” when elected, and he went with the example of sexual assult. 🤦
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One could pointed out Tr**p's nepotism, horrible biz/econ skills, brash, rude and condescening speech, brazely lying, and he went with _that_ example?
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That's why it isn't just tone policing, using this sort of example continues the diminishing of sexual assault, which makes it wrong.
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@rory Wait, what??
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By equating the two, you diminising the seriousness of a type of crime which is already treated too lightly by many cultures & communities, and which statistically disproportionally affects women & nonbinary people.