On 9/4/14, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > Piotr Ożarowski <[email protected]> writes: >> [Ian Jackson, 2014-09-03] >>> Piotr Ożarowski writes ("Re: Code of Conduct violations handling >>> process"): > >>>> Some people want(ed) to codify in CoC other political correctness >>>> "things" that I don't agree with. I like our current CoC and I don't >>>> want to change it. > >>> Neil Gaiman writes: >> [...] > >> that's not what I think about political correctness, quite the opposite >> actually, but if it makes you happy, so be it. Please stop CCing me, >> though - I'm subscribing -project. > > This may be a case where people for whom English is not their first > language, or who are otherwise not embedded in the political debates about > the English term "political correctness," may not realize the land mines > they're stepping on. > > At least in the United States, people who use the term "political > correctness" in all seriousness as something they dislike and think is bad > are generally people with whom you would not want to share a project and > people who you would be best off avoiding. This viewpoint is correlated > with racism, sexism, and other really anti-social behavior. Its most > vocal public proponents, in the US political arena, are people who feel > the major problem facing society is not that bigotry is tolerated in the > public sphere but that other people dare to call them on their bigotry and > imply it's unacceptable. Expect to see, for example, the KKK ranting > about "political correctness."
Thank you. That is inciteful. Sorry, insightful indeed. (May be not the best place for such a non pun, anyway ... egg shells neverending, it feels sad.) > However, the term got exported to the broader world, and I suspect that, > outside our particular political hotbed, others are using it as a gentler > sort of term for "getting too caught up on exact phrasings" or "taking > offense too readily." Just be aware that is NOT what many people in the > United States will take the term to mean. By using it, you are risking > allying yourself with people you probably do not want to be associated > with. Thank you for that understanding. You are correct, at least wrt Australia. Regards Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caosgnstfqvyt4jtpmbzrknklakq4hbjwlkkykqw0kx-5fe9...@mail.gmail.com
