On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 06:59:28 PM Egbert Eich wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 05:55:59PM +0200, Philipp Thomas wrote:
* Greg KH (gregkh@suse.de) [20110509 19:12]:
No, that's not true at all. "Inappropriate" is something that is offensive to others.
With that you presto arrive at political correctness where everbody tries to evade even the tiniest possibility of possibly being offensive and at least I would not want to be part of it.
If you try to parse this out individually, sure,
you can get stuck in the minor details of wordsmithing.
NO! It's not minor details of wordsmithing! You seem to assume that cultural differences don't exist as otherwise you wouldn't talk in that way.
YES, it is!
Skimming over the links posted on harassment cases on conferences I did not find a single one which I would have not considered inappropriate and I think most of us would feel the same way.
So please, read what Joos wrote - this really is not about disecting carefully every word before it is spoken but more about applying a little common sense on how to communicate observing the feedback of those one communicates with. I'd argue that a majority of us already have a rather good grasp of how to express themselves in public even in a culturally diverse group - so there is nothing to worry about.
I agree with you, Egbert.
However there are people who don't or who tend to forget. For them this code of conduct serves as a friendly reminder that we do not condone such behavior and it leaves them no room for the excuse they 'didn't know'.
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