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Comment on Ask HN: Is it legal for a software license to have terms based on race and sex?parent

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If you seek to be neutral in this way, even if you are successful, then you are allowing advantages from other sources to carry over. You are deliberately allowing white, heterosexual males to retain their existing advantages. You are not accounting for hidden, quiet, long-standing social engineering that is in favour of existing power structures. That is not neutrality.

That's pretty much the definition of neutrality. You are not altering something for better or for worse. You're not on the side of equality, and you're not on the side of discrimination. It's pure and simply something that you've decided is not your business to address.

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