[SeasonOfDocs] Meritocracy

[Erin McKean]

I agree that 'meritocracy' is a skunked term
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunked_term> at this point, and should be
avoided.

It's an interesting word in English as the original term was meant by its
coiner to be a *criticism* of the system it described, not positive at all!


On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 6:09 AM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On 23/7/19 10:42 pm, Jennifer Rondeau wrote:
> > Looks like I'm first out of the gate as SJW here -- can we please not
> > refer to a "principle[ ...of ...] meritocracy"? It's term that's been
> > tarnished beyond current repair in the worlds of tech generally and in
> > FOSS especially. I appreciate the sentiment, but we can find better
> words.
>
> Jennifer,
>
> I suspect you might be referring to derivatives of
> https://postmeritocracy.org/ I'm fine with changing language. I feel
> diversity which leads to effective collaboration is really important.
> I'm saddened that the term "meritocracy" seems to have adopted such a
> narrow definition. In my mind meritocracy should include soft metrics
> (such as how effectively people build diverse communities).
>
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