From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Griffin Subject: Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines? Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 21:09:50 -0500 Message-ID: <1540865390.935092.1559085952.0DD89926@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1540860403.119643.1559028280.4B9C548F@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58643) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHJTh-0003x3-DL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2018 22:09:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHJTc-0007F0-UB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2018 22:09:57 -0400 Received: from wout1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([64.147.123.24]:45769) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHJTc-0007Er-K2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2018 22:09:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1540860403.119643.1559028280.4B9C548F@webmail.messagingengine.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Tonton Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, at 7:46 PM, Alex Griffin wrote: > It's not *just* a low standard of communication. The same sentence goes > on to list a whole slew of categories you might use to put people into > groups, which I don't agree with because it encourages treating people > as members of a group rather than as individuals. I know someone will argue this, so I'll get ahead of it. This is probably a confusing statement, because the literal meaning of the words is that you should treat people as individuals. The problem is that if that's what you really want then it's a bad idea to remind people of all the ways they're divided. -- Alex Griffin