MESSAGE
| DATE | 2019-10-29 |
| FROM | Jean Louis
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS]
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Dear Samuel,
* Samuel Thibault [2019-10-29 09:28]:
> It is not a question of reference to human sexuality only. It is a
> question of saying that a particular (non-)sexuality status is something
> that shall be fixed, as if it was shameful. It's the fact that the joke
> is based the assumption that the person at stake has a problem to be
> fixed which is an issue. I remember a particularly hilarious talk that
> was comparing writing software with having sex, and was thus _full_ of
> sexual references, but didn't contain any question of shame, and thus at
> worse could make some people go red, but not get offensed.
Let me assure you that I understand how people may get offended. And I
would like to assure you that I understand what you mean.
I just don't approve that one shall destroy communities for those
opinions. It is not worth it.
Reason to destroy one community for the opinion that somebody was
offended because joke was not politically correct is not valid
reason.
I see in that new movement of "offended people" the intolerance, hate,
ignorance of free speech. I see antisocial behavior.
It is fine to tell opinions, but it is not fine to go after people,
defame, slander, commit illegal acts, ruin public events, ruin
communities.
That movement has wrong values.
If somebody does not agree that for the sake of joke, one shall defame
a person -- then person who does not agree is suddenly "bad".
There is simple fact that joke is a joke and not meant to be real. But
the movement of people who are offended do not want to accept that
fact. They inflate accusations because the joke was this or that.
But such activity is not helping GNU to become better. One cannot go
after people stalking them to see who is telling which joke and then
abusing them for reasons of a joke and then tell to their
organizations to cancel a contract with them. It is cruel, abusive,
even illegal in many countries.
To tell to organization like FSF to "remove" Stallman is illegal
act. Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference
Tortious interference, also known as intentional interference with
contractual relations, in the common law of torts, occurs when one
person intentionally damages someone else's contractual or business
relationships with a third party causing economic harm.
To justify such acts with "jokes" which could "offend somebody" is
immature or intentionally evil, maybe even psychotic.
Why react in such manner like somebody was hurt by the joke? It was
not.
Why that movement of offended people are overreacting?
Then in my opinion, it is not the GNU project, but offended person who
need to learn how to behave in a group.
We all have some personal individual problems and sensitivies, that
does not justify to bring those problems onto the group of people,
which in its own is formed for quite different purposes.
Jean
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