From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Chris Shea <cmshea@gmail.com>
Cc: 32578@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32578: Remove "joke" from drag events documentation
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:20:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8jc2ue4.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANm7eBQMXZGymmCn0rOtgGa_=t78sVQEPOD15sW-F3ce71NdxA@mail.gmail.com>
On 2018-08-29, at 19:29, Chris Shea <cmshea@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This patch removes an unnecessary and unwelcoming joke from the drag events
> documentation. Documentation should be informative and inclusive.
I'm a bit on the fence about this. On the one hand, I remember seeing
the joke some time ago and finding it hilarious. On the other hand,
I remember feeling good about removing other jokes from Emacs sources,
which were _really_ offensive. This one seems to be far, far from
offensive anyway, and if anyone feels offended by this, they probably
well deserve it. Disclosure: I know (and often tell myself) jokes about
groups of people _I_ belong to which are probably much more "offensive"
than this one (though obviously I may be biased). I can provide
a sample on request.
I don't see how the relevant portion can be seen as not informative.
BTW, I am now coauthoring a book on pretty advanced mathematics
(nonlinear analysis), and we try to put quite a lot of jokes into it.
Well-placed jokes do not make a book/documentation less informative, but
more pleasant to read. (Unfortunately, there is nothing about "drag
events" in the book.)
If I were to made a decision, I would probably (a bit reluctantly, but
still) leave it, so that Emacs does not succumb to the idiocy called
"political correctness".
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-30 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-29 17:29 bug#32578: Remove "joke" from drag events documentation Chris Shea
2018-08-30 7:20 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2018-08-30 7:49 ` Colin Baxter
2018-08-30 9:13 ` Phil Sainty
2018-08-30 13:51 ` Chris Shea
2018-08-31 6:08 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-09-02 3:13 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-02 3:49 ` Chris Shea
2018-09-03 6:26 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-30 20:08 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-08-30 20:54 ` Chris Shea
2018-08-30 22:57 ` Juri Linkov
2018-08-31 1:23 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-01 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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