Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 10:49:12AM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> On 2019-12-13 09:56, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > When someone explicitly says that they refuse to recognise part of your
> > humanity it's natural to have an emotional reaction to that. It's
> > reasonable to hold AH members to higher standards, but it's not
> > reasonable to hold them to superhuman standards.
>
> No, either we have a CoC or not.
> If it goes so much against your believes, humanity or whatever else,
> that you can't answer in a sane language, ask somebody else to answer
> in your name. Especially when you are in a team that wants to keep
> the CoC upright.
I think it's reasonable to suggest that Martina's language didn't show
respect, but to immediately escalate that to listmaster and suggest that
she has no place in Debian while expresssing no objection to the
original provocatively transphobic post shows a focus on civility over
actual respect for other humans.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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