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kareila ([personal profile] kareila) wrote in [site community profile] changelog2010-04-26 05:22 pm

[dw-nonfree] update diversity statement

[commit: http://hg.dwscoalition.org/dw-nonfree/rev/d2a4c4dec598]

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2550

Add more inclusive language.

Patch by [staff profile] denise.

Files modified:
  • htdocs/legal/diversity.bml
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diff -r 884c18d9cbed -r d2a4c4dec598 htdocs/legal/diversity.bml
--- a/htdocs/legal/diversity.bml	Tue Apr 20 03:09:32 2010 -0700
+++ b/htdocs/legal/diversity.bml	Mon Apr 26 12:22:02 2010 -0500
@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@
 #
 # Authors:
 #     Janine Smith <janine@netrophic.com>
+# Text by:
+#     The Dreamwidth Community
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2009 by Dreamwidth Studios, LLC.
+# Copyright (c) 2009-2010 by Dreamwidth Studios, LLC.
 #
 # This program is NOT free software or open-source; you can use it as an
 # example of how to implement your own site-specific extensions to the
@@ -21,15 +23,17 @@ stance on it:</p>
 <p>We welcome you.</p>
 
 <p>We welcome people of any gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, size, nationality,
-sexual orientation, ability level, neurotype, religion, culture, subculture, and
+sexual orientation, ability level, neurotype, religion, elder status, family structure, culture, subculture, and
 political opinion. We welcome activists, artists, bloggers, crafters,
 dilettantes, musicians, photographers, readers, writers, ordinary people,
 extraordinary people, and everyone in between. We welcome people who want
 to change the world, people who want to keep in touch with friends, people
 who want to make great art, and people who just need a break after work. We
-welcome fans, geeks, nerds, and pixel-stained technopeasant wretches. We
+welcome fans, geeks, nerds, and pixel-stained technopeasant wretches. (We
 welcome Internet beginners who aren't sure what any of those terms refer
-to.</p>
+to.) We welcome you no matter if the Internet was a household word by the
+time you started secondary school or whether you were already retired by the
+time the World Wide Web was invented.</p>
 
 <p>We welcome you. You may wear a baby sling, hijab, a kippah, leather,
 piercings, a pentacle, a political badge, a rainbow, a rosary, tattoos, or
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