FSFE in Outreachy?

[Daniel Pocock]

On 02/09/17 10:45, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote:
>
>> Treating these efforts as
>> discrimination means that we ignore the fact that we live in a world
>> where not all people have the same opportunities and that people of
>> certain gender or color are privileged.
> I personally find this brush a little too broad.  Gender and ethnicity
> aren't excellent indicators of levels of privilege.  Take an orphan
> white boy, or a black girl born/adopted into a rich family, and this all
> falls apart.


A black boy adopted by a rich family almost got into Oxford, but
Britain's new Brexit overlords are conspiring to make him go away:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brian-white-petition-stay-uk-orphan-adopted-wolverhampton-oxford-university-chemistry-signatures-a7919741.html