Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

[Rob Sayre <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 9:29 PM Paul Wouters <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Aug 2020, Dan Harkins wrote:
>
> >   If we allow the listener to decide whether the speaker's words are
> shitty
> > (and that their ambient shittiness needs to be reduced-- I know what you
> > mean here in your impreciseness and I would appreciate it if you were to
> > say it explicitly) we will further empower victimhood.
>
> Your proposed action could literally be the example in the dictionary
> for the word "bullying":
>
>         seek to harm, intimidate, or coerce (someone perceived as
> vulnerable).
>

Do you mean that Dan is the bully? I can't tell.

thanks,
Rob