Re: Code of Conduct violations handling process
On 9/4/14, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> writes:
>> [Ian Jackson, 2014-09-03]
>>> Piotr Ożarowski writes ("Re: Code of Conduct violations handling
>>> process"):
>
>>>> Some people want(ed) to codify in CoC other political correctness
>>>> "things" that I don't agree with. I like our current CoC and I don't
>>>> want to change it.
>
>>> Neil Gaiman writes:
>> [...]
>
>> that's not what I think about political correctness, quite the opposite
>> actually, but if it makes you happy, so be it. Please stop CCing me,
>> though - I'm subscribing -project.
>
> This may be a case where people for whom English is not their first
> language, or who are otherwise not embedded in the political debates about
> the English term "political correctness," may not realize the land mines
> they're stepping on.
>
> At least in the United States, people who use the term "political
> correctness" in all seriousness as something they dislike and think is bad
> are generally people with whom you would not want to share a project and
> people who you would be best off avoiding. This viewpoint is correlated
> with racism, sexism, and other really anti-social behavior. Its most
> vocal public proponents, in the US political arena, are people who feel
> the major problem facing society is not that bigotry is tolerated in the
> public sphere but that other people dare to call them on their bigotry and
> imply it's unacceptable. Expect to see, for example, the KKK ranting
> about "political correctness."
Thank you. That is inciteful. Sorry, insightful indeed.
(May be not the best place for such a non pun, anyway ... egg shells
neverending, it feels sad.)
> However, the term got exported to the broader world, and I suspect that,
> outside our particular political hotbed, others are using it as a gentler
> sort of term for "getting too caught up on exact phrasings" or "taking
> offense too readily." Just be aware that is NOT what many people in the
> United States will take the term to mean. By using it, you are risking
> allying yourself with people you probably do not want to be associated
> with.
Thank you for that understanding. You are correct,
at least wrt Australia.
Regards
Zenaan
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