Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-10 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
dude who spent all his social capital in defending the theoretical rights of a convicted paedophile rms called Epstein "a serial rapist", I don't really understand how you might think those words are "defending". Best

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-10 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Le 9 avril 2021 22:41:10 GMT+02:00, Holger Levsen a écrit : > so policing the tone *here* is indeed taking sides Then let's agree to disagree. -- Pierre-Elliott Bécue From my phone

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-09 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 10:38:54PM +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > But the definition is not the point; the effect is the same: asking > > "both sides" to "de-escalate" when one party has been subjected to an > > existential attack by the other, prioritizes "civility" over equity. > > I

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-08 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Le jeudi 08 avril 2021 à 14:36:09-0700, Dmitry Borodaenko a écrit : > On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 05:44:59AM +0100, Martina Ferrari wrote: > > It is so repetitive is boring at this point. One side wants to see a whole > > group of people dead, the other side is saying that is really bad with very > >

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-08 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 05:44:59AM +0100, Martina Ferrari wrote: > It is so repetitive is boring at this point. One side wants to see a whole > group of people dead, the other side is saying that is really bad with very > strong words; the centrist chastises the latter for being rude. The paradox

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-07 Thread Martina Ferrari
Asking for de-escalation is not tone-policing. Tone-policing is using the way some people tend to express their opinion (generally violently, out of reaction to an attack they suffered from) as a way to invalidate their opinion or criticize them. +1 We disagree here about the definition.

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-06 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Le mardi 06 avril 2021 à 11:15:29-0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > Asking for de-escalation is not tone-policing. > > > Tone-policing is using the way some people tend to express their > > opinion (generally violently, out of reaction to an attack they suffered > > from) as a way to invalidate

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-06 Thread Jonathan Carter
> Apologies, this is all off-topic for debian-devel Please take it elsewhere, I do not think that this discussion is of any value to the project whatsoever and it should have already ended several posts ago already. -Jonathan

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-06 Thread Ansgar
On Tue, 2021-04-06 at 22:07 +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > On this point I disagree because Steve never posted that publicly, So if I sent a private mail "fuck off you piece of shit" as a reply to a message that is okay as long as I don't send it to the public mailing list? Either it's

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
[Apologies, this is all off-topic for debian-devel and I should have set an appropriate MFT from the beginning. Corrected now.] On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 09:59:55AM +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > Firstly, I was notidied via mail that the message was initially private (but > it was not, if

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-06 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Le mardi 06 avril 2021 à 21:10:09+0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL a écrit : > Some persons consider that "Fuck off, nobody asked you for your shitty > fascist opinion" is not acceptable publicly regardless the > circumstances. On this point I disagree because Steve never posted that publicly, but he

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-06 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
We disagree here about the definition. But the definition is not the point; the effect is the same: asking "both sides" to "de-escalate" when one party has been subjected to an existential attack by the other, prioritizes "civility" over equity. But considering things differently canot help

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-06 Thread Oskar Berggren
Den tis 6 apr. 2021 kl 20:15 skrev Steve Langasek : > Transphobia by definition is not civilized and the rules of civilized > discourse do not apply when dealing with individuals who are external to > your civilization. That to me seems like an absolutely extraordinary proposition. The epitome

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-06 Thread Ansgar
Hi Steve, On Tue, 2021-04-06 at 11:15 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > the rules of civilized discourse do not apply when dealing with > individuals who are external to your civilization. Please take your imperialist ideology elsewhere. Thanks, Ansgar

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 12:47:23PM +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > Le lundi 05 avril 2021 à 15:58:37-0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > Hi all, > > After some long thought, I believe this message warrants a public response > > (and discussion). > > The facts are these: > > - an individual

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-06 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Le lundi 05 avril 2021 à 15:58:37-0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > Hi all, > > After some long thought, I believe this message warrants a public response > (and discussion). > > The facts are these: > > - an individual who is not part of the Debian community sent me (and other >people) a

Re: Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-06 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hi, Firstly, I was notidied via mail that the message was initially private (but it was not, if I understand what you say, and since I read it). I am sorry for this as your thread should have been private and would not have created such situation. I would not have had any feedback if it had

Tone policing by a member of the community team [Was, Re: Statement regarding Richard Stallman's readmission to the FSF board]

2021-04-05 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi all, After some long thought, I believe this message warrants a public response (and discussion). The facts are these: - an individual who is not part of the Debian community sent me (and other people) a private, unsolicited email sharing his views on the current topic of the day. -