Brian Gupta <[email protected]> writes: > I think you may be mistaking "Unix tradition" [1] for "Troll culture" [2], > but I'll leave you with a quote from one of my favorite authors, which > may help put things in perspective.:
> I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday > which included the phrase “In these days of political correctness…” > talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for > their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought, > “That’s not actually anything to do with ‘political > correctness’. That’s just treating other people with respect.” > Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we > replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with > “treating other people with respect”, and it made me smile. > You should try it. It’s peculiarly enlightening. > I know what you’re thinking now. You’re thinking “Oh my god, that’s > treating other people with respect gone mad!” > - Neil Gaiman This, so much. Thank you for posting it. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
