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I was going to post this on OMG! Ubuntu! but I’m just far too aware of the shit-storm it’d kick up. Which makes me even sadder.
“Very rarely do I use this blog as a political soap-box but quite a large number of readers got in touch regarding the following news item and asked whether we could highlight it and spread a bit of awareness on it.
Now at first glance my editor pangs kicked in and said ‘It’s not Ubuntu related’ - it’s not an app, tweak or theme, nor is it an interview, review or general bug rant - but then I realised it was related to Ubuntu. In quite a big way.
How?
Ubuntu is much more than an OS. It goes far beyond the digital confines of code and into the real world; it’s a community. That community is made up of so many wonderful, diverse and different people all of whom deserve respect whatever their leanings, choices and persuasions.
Yes - even people who still use Clearlooks as their default theme!
Humour aside, its sometimes easy to forget that the welcoming warmth this wonderful bubble called ’Ubuntu’ is filled with doesn’t always seep out to defrost the discriminatory dangers we’d like.
Last week the United Nations - arguably one of the most important and influential forces for good the world has ever seen - saw a plea to protect lesbians, gay and bisexual people protected from execution based solely on the gender of who they love defeated - albeit narrowly.
I can appreciate that not everyone agrees, approves or understands the complexities of human sexuality - I certainly don’t - but I do find it very disheartening that whilst people are protected form arbitrary killings based on their language or choice of protest (all of which remain in the bill) it cannot be afforded to those very same people but whose orientation is pointed at people of their own gender.”
Twenty-something journalist/blogger wich a penchant for sci-fi, sentai, vegan food and 90s Nickelodeon cartoons.
