[python-committers] CoC violation (was: Retire or reword the "Beautiful is better than ugly" Zen clause)

[Carol Willing]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Fear of speaking or fear of reading - both are not ideal. The balance of
respectful discourse likely falls somewhere between the two.

Context is important. I wonder though if the author's intent was
constructive comment...

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 8:01 AM Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 at 12:38, Carol Willing <willingc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Much of the discussion here has focused on the use of a few words.
> >
> > IMHO, discussing violence, assault, and implying that its okay to accept
> and trivialize this violence do not belong in posts about the Python
> language.
> >
> > From the original post:
> >
> > Being triggered by a word this simple is not exactly a
> > sign of mental stability. I know a girl who's been raped more than she
> can
> > count - but the word doesn't trigger her like this(only makes her want to
> > beat up rapists). If people can do that, then surely a playground insult
> > wont reduce you to tears, right ?
>
> I agree - *but* there's a whole lot more I wish I could say, about
> context, and looking at how the conversation reached that point.
>
> But I won't, because frankly I'm scared to do so. I don't trust myself
> to explain my feelings without doing so in a way that people find
> offensive, and suffering a backlash that I didn't intend to trigger,
> and which won't help the discussion.
>
> I'm not sure that "I'm too scared to participate in this discussion"
> is where we want to be, though...
> Paul
>
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