It's not unreasonable to evaluate things based on the general sentiment of the time; most people hundreds of years ago were far more racist and sexist than today, for instance. There were a small number of people who were unusually *more* so for the time, and a small number of people who were unusually *less* so.
It's also not unreasonable to hold people to a higher standard for a leadership position in a company and community that explicitly wants to be inclusive and that has significant participation from people who value that inclusiveness. We can ideally seek out people who are in the "unusually less so" category, and at the very least rule out people in the "unusually more so" category.
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Re: Yes, drawing the line somewhere is important.
Date: 2015-12-01 11:21 pm (UTC)It's also not unreasonable to hold people to a higher standard for a leadership position in a company and community that explicitly wants to be inclusive and that has significant participation from people who value that inclusiveness. We can ideally seek out people who are in the "unusually less so" category, and at the very least rule out people in the "unusually more so" category.