Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15615 March 1977, Martina Ferrari wrote: Good to know that you prefer to include bigots in Debian in exchange for marginalised people, I am sure the other trans and nonbinary folk in Debian must feel very welcome around you. At least you are being open about it. Are you misreading him on pu

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2019/12/13 00:31, Norbert Preining wrote: > please tone down you expression, three times "asshole" sprinkled with > some "fuck off" is far above any acceptable limit here. > Not to mention "genocide" and "nazi". Nothing about Martina's comments there were at all against the CoC, it's completely

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 03:47:43AM -0300, Martina Ferrari a écrit : > > Whether my phrase was directed at Gerardo only or also to you, you decide. Please do not write that, Martina. You are undermining the very code of conduct that you are striving to defend. To all: how about a "maximum one ma

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Martina Ferrari
On 13/12/2019 02:55, Norbert Preining wrote: >> https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/12/tone-policing-and-privilege/ > > Nice cartoon, but having emotions and blarping out insults is a > different thing. You are missing the point completely, like you did with my original email. >> It is a shame th

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC, lglg

2019-12-12 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 02:32:08AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 12:00:11AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 07:31:41AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > > > Martina, > > > > > > please tone down you expression, three times "asshole" sprinkled with >

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi, > https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/12/tone-policing-and-privilege/ Nice cartoon, but having emotions and blarping out insults is a different thing. > > And that from an AH/whatever team member, this is a shame for you and > > Debian. > > It is a shame that Debian still has transphobes in i

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Scott Kitterman
On December 13, 2019 4:43:32 AM UTC, Martina Ferrari wrote: >I forgot to say this earlier, but thanks for reminding me: anybody who >wants to report me for CoC violations without me reading the complaint >can do it mailing the other CT members individually. > >On 12/12/2019 19:31, Norbert Prein

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Martina Ferrari
I forgot to say this earlier, but thanks for reminding me: anybody who wants to report me for CoC violations without me reading the complaint can do it mailing the other CT members individually. On 12/12/2019 19:31, Norbert Preining wrote: > Martina, > > please tone down you expression, three tim

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC, lglg

2019-12-12 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 12:00:11AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 07:31:41AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > > Martina, > > > > please tone down you expression, three times "asshole" sprinkled with > > some "fuck off" is far above any acceptable limit here. > > Not to ment

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC, lglg

2019-12-12 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 07:31:41AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Martina, > > please tone down you expression, three times "asshole" sprinkled with > some "fuck off" is far above any acceptable limit here. > Not to mention "genocide" and "nazi". > And that from an AH/whatever team member, this

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Norbert Preining
Martina, please tone down you expression, three times "asshole" sprinkled with some "fuck off" is far above any acceptable limit here. Not to mention "genocide" and "nazi". And that from an AH/whatever team member, this is a shame for you and Debian. @listmaster: I consider this an actionable ema

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15614 March 1977, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: Anyway, thank you for clarifying that using people's preferred pronouns is a requisite for being welcome in Debian. As I read them, neither the CoC nor the Diversity Statement are explicit on that. Maybe it would be useful to make it explicit? They

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Martina Ferrari
On 12/12/2019 07:22, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > So this is also inevitably a political issue. It's not just about > "being polite" (or "welcoming" or "excellent" or whatever). I believe > that I absolutely have the right to "being impolite" if "being polite" > means that I must use a language that

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
(I see that because of my mistake, this thread continued on both -project and -vote. If you think it's better to restrict it to either list, please say so.) Hello Sam and others, I did not want to derail the discussion. As I wrote, I made those examples because I believed that they would help mak

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Sam" == Sam Hartman writes: Sam> In adopting the Diversity Statement and the Code of Conduct Sam> we've committed to welcoming people to the project regardless Sam> of how they identify the project. Sigh. This should have been regardless of how they identify themselves.

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Gerardo" == Gerardo Ballabio writes: Gerardo, somehow you've taken the discussion from terms used in Debian elections to abortion politics and use of people's preferred pronouns. You could have found examples from within a Debian context. They were right there: diversity and its use in

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 11:22:48AM +0100, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > That is because I believe that people's sexual identities are > determined by objective facts, such as which chromosomes are there in > their DNA, and not by how they subjectively "perceive themselves". To be clear, and speakin

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On 2019-12-12 10:22, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: And indeed, in the last decades, redefining language has been a major part of the political debate at large, with every group trying to "hijack words for their own ends". [...] So when I refuse ... to abuse the English language by calling an individu

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
Sigh. Trying to stay out of this, but I can't *not* respond here. On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 11:22:48AM +0100, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > >For example (forgive me if this might seem off-topic, but I think that >working out the details of an actual example is necessary to make my >point clear), I do no

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
Sorry, I just realized I sent this to the wrong list. It was for -vote actually. Gerardo Il giorno gio 12 dic 2019 alle ore 11:22 Gerardo Ballabio ha scritto: > > Sam, thank you very much for raising this issue and for recognizing > that there's more than one angle to it. > > I tend to agree w

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-12 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
Sam, thank you very much for raising this issue and for recognizing that there's more than one angle to it. I tend to agree with Scott. It is well known, at least since George Orwell wrote his books, that controlling how people speak means controlling how they think. So I believe that this issue i