On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 05:23:04PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> writes: > > You try to somehow equate denying a "right" to be smug over forcing > > others to lie, with a direct expulsion. One of these is just a feeling, > > the other is an actual severe action. > I'm not sure that I parsed that correctly, Adam. I hope that you didn't > just imply that asking someone to use someone else's correct pronouns is > asking them to lie, and I just misunderstood what you were trying to say. > > Accept my apologies that I'm not inclusive enough to demand expelling > > people, and that I'm not diverse enough to demand a homogenity of > > opinions. > No. > To avoid any appearance of doubt, I stand with my transgender colleagues, > I believe that it is completely unacceptable to attempt to erase their > experience, and I am completely in favor of expelling from the project > anyone who insists repeatedly on intentionally referring to them by an > incorrect gender or otherwise verbally harassing them or denying their > existence. > This principle is more important to me than the unity of the project and > is more important to me than Debian. > I do not believe diversity is about accepting anything including > intolerance. I believe in making explicit choices, and standing by those > choices. I support LGBT people and do not support anti-LGBT people. If > that's in conflict with Debian's code of conduct, so be it. Seconded. There is not room in the Debian Project for both me and transphobes, and I would rather see the Debian Project end than be a safe haven for transphobia. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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