From: Chris Shea <cmshea@gmail.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: m43cap@yandex.com, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>,
32578@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32578: Remove "joke" from drag events documentation
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2018 23:49:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANm7eBQcXF6NjP7e+_HtmmwkoB=zsGEVL3UBTWjdi15vjf4j4g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1fwIpj-0003q1-M3@fencepost.gnu.org>
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On Sat, Sep 1, 2018, 11:14 PM Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
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> It is pertinent that the "drag events" joke does not speak negatively
> about any group of people. Rationally speaking, it is not offensive
> to anyone.
>
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> Dr Richard Stallman
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Oh boy. I never said anything about the joke being offensive.
But I blame myself for not foreseeing this reaction, since this is the
unwelcome I was talking about. This joke's presence in the official
documentation communicates (accurately, as this whole exchange has
demonstrated) that Emacs is created by people who think that a reference to
drag is politically incorrect (and somehow rightfully so) and risqué (else
why bring up Victorian prudishness). And that suggests a certain kind of
attitude that not everyone has the patience to deal with.
I can see that the line is doing what it intends, so I accept the wontfix.
With the bond that unites all living things,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-02 3:49 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
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 [this message]
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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