Re: Code of Conduct: picking up
Brian Gupta <brian.gupta@brandorr.com> writes:
> I think you may be mistaking "Unix tradition" [1] for "Troll culture" [2],
> but I'll leave you with a quote from one of my favorite authors, which
> may help put things in perspective.:
> I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday
> which included the phrase “In these days of political correctness…”
> talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for
> their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought,
> “That’s not actually anything to do with ‘political
> correctness’. That’s just treating other people with respect.”
> Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we
> replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with
> “treating other people with respect”, and it made me smile.
> You should try it. It’s peculiarly enlightening.
> I know what you’re thinking now. You’re thinking “Oh my god, that’s
> treating other people with respect gone mad!”
> - Neil Gaiman
This, so much.
Thank you for posting it.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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