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1. ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 02:20:48 JST ✌🏿✍🏿

   • Aral Balkan

   I wrote https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/oh-aral/ about the recent accessibility campaign that @aral's been holding in (or against) the GNOME community, how it's an inversion of privilege preservation and how I fell for it.

   I saw red flags and ignored them because of the messaging.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 02:20:47 JST Aral Balkan

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     @jalcine Wow, thanks, man. Seriously, thank you.

     So a few notes:

     1. My name is Aral Balkan, not Aral Balkin (I realise it’s not an American name but we still deserve to have our names written correctly, even if we’re not Americans.)

     2. I am not white, I am white-presenting. I come from the part of the world that people in the US of all skin colours love to bomb from time to time.

     3. My version of the alt-tab switcher was accessible. The version merged in to Elementary wasn’t.

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   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 02:34:56 JST Aral Balkan

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     @jalcine …

     See: https://ar.al/2021/11/08/my-three-month-long-elementary-os-6-upgrade-adventure-in-three-parts-part-1-catts/

     I haven’t blocked a single person based on their ethnicity or their gender ever. I do block people I no longer want to engage with. I’ve stated that publicly many times. And I do it for my own mental health.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 02:39:37 JST Aral Balkan

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     @jalcine I raised the accessibility issue and fixed in my build:

     https://github.com/elementary/gala/pull/1234#issuecomment-916865467

     I end it with:

     "Would hugely appreciate it if you could port these into Gala and if we could launch with an accessible task switcher :)"

     It’s actually Danielle who approved the merge before the accessibility issues were fixed in Gala and I’m being blamed for this also?

   • ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 02:39:38 JST ✌🏿✍🏿

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral

     1. Fixed the first one.

     2. Whiteness is a construct and is deployed across phenotypes, geographical markers and the like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteness_theory. This is how folks like the Karshadians are able to also deploy a sense of whiteness on a global scale: https://ajammc.com/2017/08/29/armenian-whiteness-america/. In short, in the way that I can't run from my Blackness because of whiteness, society will not allow you to run from that. It's on how you utilize it that makes a difference.

     3. I'm going off the word of the founder of Elementary, who's highlighted that (and you've blocked?). To follow your example regarding System76's COSMIC, what's available to people (i.e. a layperson isn't building Comet from source, they're pulling it from AppCenter) is what they'll perceive as available. If you haven't updated it, that's on you to fix (and that's easy it sounds like).

     This is something Angela Davis wrote about as well.