Re: USA dominion: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

Dan Harkins <dharkins@lounge.org> Fri, 07 August 2020 05:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: USA dominion: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
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On 7/30/20 7:47 PM, Keith Moore wrote:
> To me, part of what inclusion looks like is /respectful tolerance of 
> differing views //even though some of those views make some people 
> uncomfortable/.   I want to suggest that people being immediately 
> comfortable isn't an appropriate goal, because it always makes some 
> people uncomfortable that there are multiple valid perspectives on a 
> subject.  Instead, the community needs to cultivate a willingness to 
> be uncomfortable when it is done in the service of accommodating 
> different views and building rough consensus. 

   This is exactly right! Yes... +1!

   Dan.