[diversity-talk] The recent unpleasantness

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2014-12-03 16:05 GMT+01:00 Tom MacWright <tom at macwright.org>:

> I support the ban: what Serge wrote was abusive, personal, and hurtful,
> easily falling into the 'extreme' bin.
>
>

I believe that if Serge got banned, Alyssa and Randal should get banned as
well. He was carefully explaining, despite his resentfulness, why he got
hurt by her statement, a statement that was presumably ironic in its
intentions, but surely shouldn't have been posted to a diversity mailing
list (btw. in a thread that Serge had started about neurodiversity, and
where he had explained the sensibility of the argument). And what is their
reply? An apology? No, they called him an "asshole", here, on the public
diversity list where a code of conduct for OSM shall emerge. Even if you
believed he was, how can you call for "respect for everybody" and in the
same breath deny it to him?

cheers,
Martin
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