dertermenter wrote:

Personally, I don't think it was a good idea for the Scratch Team to make announcements on black history month or pride month since it makes people concerned/annoyed that other awareness months don't get featured. Sometimes the most inclusive thing to do is to not do announcements for anything.

I agree. Even if every heritage month there is was given the same amount of acknowledgement by the ST, as a straight white male, I would still feel left out in those regards!

undeterministic wrote:

xXRedTheCoderXx wrote:

Even if this was implemented, the ST would probably call it “Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month” to seem woke which would make me die of cringe

that is a very strange thing to get mad about. also “woke” what i don't understand this new phrase

“Woke” means alert to social issues. Corporations like Google and Disney have used the term latinx or latin@ in the past to seem woke, because apparently they're more “gender-inclusive” when in reality it's redundant because if one knew anything about the Spanish language and its grammar, they'd know the term “latinos” is already gender-inclusive. Also, latinxs can't really be pronounced in Spanish, and don't even get me started on “latin@s.” This is because these are terms created by Americans trying to be woke. Go to Mexico and call someone latinx - I'll assure you they'll look at you funny.

Anyways that's enough, I don't wanna derail the topic lol

xXRedTheCoderXx wrote:

Even if this was implemented, the ST would probably call it “Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month” to seem woke which would make me die of cringe

The term “Latinx” is problematic to begin with too, if the ST used the term Latinx I can see them getting backlash (tldr is that the term was coined by non Latinos rather than actual Latino people, and the actual gender neutral form of Latino/Latina in the Spanish language is Latine)
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I will say that historical Black people have been more marginalized in America that Hispanic or Asian people.

xXRedTheCoderXx wrote:

Pi day is more important, apparently

:skull: bruh
support why not other days already

OwO :: #44bd8d
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I support! There's so much more we could celebrate.

support
only pride month and bhm??

like those are important but ITS LITERALLY WOMANS HISTORY MONTH RN AND WE DONTS GOT ANYTHING, JUST PI DAY???-


bro I forgot I already said I support this

I'm gonna run under the assumption that the way the thread is titled is unintentional bad wording instead of a means to be deceptive about the true nature of the suggestion - which is to have the Scratch Team post more forum threads and do less project/studio features, as the ST has done stuff for some of the other months mentioned.

Cat-out-of-the-bag: We sometimes use threads for certain holidays/events after finding that users with less than ideal values were harassing projects and studios we feature for that holiday/event. Using a thread promoting project/studio creation around that topic deflects that harassment. Not all threads are for this purpose, but overall, a forum post shouldn't be thought of as more superior than a project/studio feature. It isn't, especially for a creative community where there is greater value is presenting stuff made by others.

xXRedTheCoderXx wrote:

Pi day is more important, apparently

I think being dismissive of the importance of mathematics has a lot of negative implications for a website like Scratch. Maybe I was wrong about Pi day not being one of those cases. Yikes.