"Controversial" is different from "political". We can discuss controversial topics without bringing up political affiliations.
Please stop. On Oct 29, 2015 11:00 AM, "Aahz Maruch via Callers" < [email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015, Ron Blechner wrote: > > > > Can we please not discuss politics on this list? > > Whether "gypsy" is an offensive term and the figure name should be > changed is an inherently political discussion, so no. (Ditto similar > discussions about gender-free dancer terms.) > > For that matter, I would argue that discussions about how to handle > harassment are political as well; at minimum, thirty or forty years ago, > there would have been people arguing exactly as you are that we should > avoid discussing them because they are political. > > What exactly are you objecting to? > -- > Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 > http://rule6.info/ > <*> <*> <*> > "We've just found a line in a perl script that invokes a shell script to > call > a lisp program which invokes the very-same perl script." --anonymous > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net >
