On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 08:54:36PM -0000, Marco d'Itri wrote: > hartm...@debian.org wrote: > > > Marco> I also do not believe in a general right (instead > > Marco> of about specific issues) of people to not be offended by > > Marco> other's behaviour. Is this good enough for Debian? > >This offended word keeps coming up from people who are concerned about > >the code of conduct. > I do not think that I have ever expressed any major concerns about the > code of conduct, so I do not understand why you are bringing it up. > If you are really curious, then I think that my use of the word > "offended" comes from reading articles like these which discuss that > issue (which maybe is not even significant in the Debian community?): > > https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/the-rise-of-victimhood-culture/404794/ > https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/ > > But feel free to ignore that sentence, it does not really matter. > I would still like to know the answer to my post. |On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 04:11:36PM -0000, Marco d'Itri wrote: |> I would appreciate some clarifications on this point, to better |> understand where I stand. |> I do not like transphobes (and various other kinds of bigots), I am |> happy to recognize people's gender identity as male, female or |> non-binary and to address them as they prefer using "he", "she" or |> "them", if so requested.
+1 |> I do not recognize a right of other people to dictate how I can |> express myself, and specifically request that I use words which I do not |> recognize as part of my language. +1 |> I also do not believe in a general right (instead of about specific |> issues) of people to not be offended by other's behaviour. Not sure, due twice "not". |> Is this good enough for Debian? Yes. After all is Debian about libre software _and_ inclusion. Groeten Geert Stappers DD -- Yes, we should continue to have both
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