[BLU/Officers] political correctness flame war on Discuss makes BLU and Linux look bad

[John Abreau]

I just posted a request to move the discussion off the BLU list.

What are your thoughts on how we should handle it if members ignore the
request and continue polluting the list with this off-topic material?

I'm not sure what we can actually do, short of unsubscribing and banning
the repeat offenders, and that's a heavy-handed precedent I'd rather not
set.

But as Bill pointed out, we've already had at least one rage-quit due to
this flame war, and if we do nothing, we could lose even more members.


On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Will Rico <willrico at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2- It would be nice to be mindful of sensitive issues and words, while
>> avoiding the public shaming of people who make mistakes.  There are shades
>> of grey here.
>
>
> ​Agree.
>
> Object to the language, not the person, if at all possible.
> (With Pieri, that's hard ... his interactions are so contrariy as to blur
> the line between language, behavior, person.
> ​
> With some-find-objectionable words, the correct response is apologize and
> move on, and that's hard to do when it starts as a confrontation.
> ​
> Alas Ned calling a word 'is racist' first rather than 'found offensive by
> some' will raise defensive hackles as being called racist is itself pretty
> offensive and might be inferred even if not implied by calling a word
> 'racist'.​
>
>
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