On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Joakim Signal <tut_at_lysator.liu.se> wrote:
>> There are lots of comments about "political correctness" leading to absurd
>> situations. It is very simple to avoid: Don't be absurd! (Like you are now
>> for
>> instance with linking english with political correctness.)
>
> Uh, yeah sure.
> They are always so easy to avoid, that's why there are never any absurd
> situations in society.
Avoid does not mean that absurdity is abolished, just reduced.
>> I fail to see how "all groups" having internal jokes make any of them good
>> (jokes or groups).
>
> Because there would often be a lack of freedom, flexibility, efficiency and
> nice atmosphere inside groups if they can't have internal discussions, jokes
> and traditions.
True. Although heavy internal procuderus, jokes, and traditions makes it hard
for newcomers to merge with the group. A balance is necessary.
>> Internal things are generally pretty bad if you want to recruit new blood.
>> It
>> makes it hard to join because unwritten rules dictate behaviour and
>> expectations.
>
> Strive to make the important ones official and write them down on a wiki or
> similar?
As mentioned before, this was in fact suggested at the last meeting for this
group.
>> No, who has spoken about forbidding anything?
>
> Ok, perhaps not forbidding. But for our activities you seem inclined to
> suppress
> things like that web comic I linked to.
Is it strange to request certain suppression of content? I don't think it would
be wise to post everything here, there is much content which is not suitable,
oppressing, offensive, etc.
I believe that it must be possible to critize and discuss things. I don't mind
posting the comics, I just think that they give people a bad image of what the
hacker/nerd/free software culture is, which was what I commented on.
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