On 2014-08-12 at 12:40, Samuel Thibault wrote: > That's why I was talking about > careful forewords. Knowing that what you will say can be taken as > offensive by some people, forewords can prevent that from happening, and > everybody will be fine.
Everyone is fine with an opening such as "This is controversial: you may disagree, but rest assured that I do not mean to attack you". I oppose statements such as this, from a previous message of yours: > But the GHM is not supposed to be about that, so people who feel they > would be offensed by such a talk should be able to think that they can > come to GHM without any risk of being offensed by the talks there. ...which I find unrealistic. It's impossible to go anywhere "without any risk" of being offended, if actual communication is taking place. -- Luca Saiu http://ageinghacker.net * GNU epsilon: http://www.gnu.org/software/epsilon * Vaucanson: http://vaucanson-project.org * Marionnet: http://marionnet.org
