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Re: [pygame] Do you support The #Python Software Foundation making a statement in support of peace?



Yes I agree, "making a statement for peace" is ambiguous. Which peace? Who's peace? "Peace" is meaningless without a context and so the main question in my mind is who gets to decide the context? Who gets to frame it? And by extension willfully ignore other contexts?


Because we're open source kind of people, do we make a decentralized polling system so we can all chip in our ideas of which peace contexts to "make a statement for"? I mean, that could be cool. Maybe irrelevant to the individuals we're supporting. But *we all* get to decide and vote on *which peace contexts* to "make a statement for". We could do this continuously and forever, and that way no one's pet peace context can be ignored by the PSF's platform.


Then we have to ask ourselves: if we make statements for peace, should we expand it to make statements for the environment, for the animals, for the marginalized?


~ Michael


On Sunday, March 13, 2022 3:42:01 PM PDT you wrote:

> To quote Glyph, "I think it would be more helpful to make a statement in

> support of Ukraine specifically. To say “peace” might suggest that Ukraine

> should surrender or both sides are at fault. It is important particularly

> for Russians who believe state media to know that Russia must withdraw."

>

> On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 8:11 AM René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>

> > hey hey,

> >

> > Do you support The Python Software Foundation making a statement in

> > support of peace?

> >

> > Vote here:

> > https://twitter.com/pygame_org/status/1502989885296238593

> >

> >

> > cheerio,

> >

>

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