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Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Sat, 25 July 2020 15:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
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Salz, Rich wrote:

> Reductio ad abursdium arguments

Is a powerful tool to prove something and it seems to me that
I have used it so successfully.

> -- commenting on Thriller or Tolkien's writings -- isn't useful to have
> a productive conversation, and I won't be enticed there.

If you ignore deep cultural nature of the issue that black is
considered somewhat evil by almost all culture including
that of blacks and have no intention to change it, surely,
it is not productive to discuss whether "blacklist" should
be banned or not.

						Masataka Ohta

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