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K-12 CS Framework Calls For Teaching Kids Responsible Use of Avatars and Emoji
theodp writes: If you're wondering what corporate-backed Computer Science for All might look like, check out the new Framework for K-12 CS Education draft, the handiwork of educators, Microsoft, Google, Apple and others, which "identifies the powerful ideas in computer science as core concepts and practices for all K-12 students." Among these is the still-to-be-completed Practice 5 — Fostering an Inclusive Computing Culture — which says that by grade 12, students should be able to: "Identify issues of diversity in depictions of people within computing artifacts. For example, a set of emoji depicts only males playing sports or the avatars in a game present only Caucasian people." In other K-12 CS news, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics suggests CS for All may not be all it's cracked up to be.
Social Justice Warriors, activate! We won't teach anyone computing or logic - be we will indoctrinate them to apply every possible micro-inequity and micro-aggression.
Is the proper use of an emoji is now something we want taught in schools? This is ridiculous. Teach Johnny and Lisa to read instead of worrying about a fucking smiley..
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
There's no better reason to vote for Donald Trump than to make SJWs heads fucking EXPLODE!!
Not just "SJWs". Someone scrawled "Trump 2016" in chalk in many places on the Emory University campus. Trivial vandalism, right? The student reaction?
That afternoon, a group of 40 to 50 students protested. According to the student newspaper, the Emory Wheel, they shouted in the quad, "You are not listening! Come speak to us, we are in pain!"...
Jim Wagner, the president of the university in Atlanta, met with the protesters and later sent an email to the campus community, explaining, in part, "During our conversation, they voiced their genuine concern and pain in the face of this perceived intimidation."
What are we becoming as a nation? This notion that "emoticon diversity is a core part of CS" is not some oddball exception. We've really lost the thread here.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
I know Linus has called people idiots and said all kinds of harsh things, but is there an open source project where someone got so pissed at another contributor they called them a faggot and started sending death threats?
People naturally tend to disassociate themselves with idiots like that. You'd have to be an incredibly skilled coder for people to put up with dickish behavior like that, which makes me think it isn't happening.
The people pushing these conduct codes aren't adding any technical contributions to the projects. It's just cargo cult social justice by idiot narcissists who have deluded themselves into believing that they're doing good, but are really just alienating people without making any actual progress towards a more equal world. A few days ago someone pointed out that Rust was perhaps one of the most rabid communities in terms of their CoC policies and "progressive" attitudes, but almost all of the contributors were still white males. They might bang on about diversity, but it doesn't result in actual diversity. The charlatans pushing this crap might praise them for it, but they're not actually contributors to the technical aspects of the project. I imagine that a lot of developers who fall into some minority category don't want to be a sacred cow for someone else's ego trip and avoid those places like that plague.
Linus might be a brash person, but if he calls you a fucking idiot, it's because he thinks your a fucking idiot. Doesn't matter if you're male, female, black, white, disabled, or pronounce GIF as though it had a 'J' in it. He's an equal opportunity shit-flinger. If everyone's walking on egg shells around a person because of some physical attribute that has nothing to do with the quality of their code, they're still treating that person differently.