On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 08:41 +1100, Bob wrote: > Hmmm, > > On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Jesse Stevens <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm sorry did you just say iPoofs? This is totally inappropriate in any > >> context. > > Yes it is. > > > > Slurs against minority groups are unacceptable. > > > > In future place CC messages about such behavior to the LUV committee so we > > can > > take action if appropriate. > > > It's interesting how social pressure to conform to the latest, > fashionable, politically correct rhetoric pervades every corner of our > lives. Not that I agree with the terminology used, or the thinly > veiled implication, but whatever happened to 'free speech'? Personal > responses to such poor taste may be appropriate, but the pressures > within social media etc to conform to the views of pressure groups and > all sorts of lobbyists is becoming tiresome - as is the public threat of > action by some 'higher authority'. Next we won't be able to say 'girl' > on this in public - perhaps naturally assigned female gender or NAFG? > > Perhaps rather than place such personal social pressure publicly within > this forum it could be done by PM? > > LUV Talk anyway > > Bob > I agree re PM How many times has the "offensive" term been repeated in this group now.
Side note that "offensive term" does have more than one meaning, I wonder why the only one that could be considered offensive is the one chosen ??? walter > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
