Patrick Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MJ Ray wrote: > > It appears that the politics of prejudice is something in common! > > Men do this, women do that? Get over it. > > This is not prejudice at all. > > The word prejudice refers to prejudgment: i.e. making a decision > before becoming aware of the relevant facts of a case or event.
I guess that depends whether one thinks "being a man" is relevant to the decision of what actions to predict. If it's based on something not statistically significant, is it unreliable? [...] > > If anyone wants to change [the violent communication], please > > figure out how to persuade people that basic human rights should > > be affirmed by debian as a project. > > The person who made all the postings on this mailing list [...] > tried exactly that. And the result was pretty violent feedback. I think that demonstrates it wasn't figured out and someone else needs to try. Changing masks, rinsing and repeating won't wash. [...] > The Cathedral and the Bazaar story? > You all remember? Not to comment on the actual point, but we can't assume that CatB is universally accepted:- "Raymond starts from a position of ignorance about how cathedrals were built and bazaars operated and goes downhill from there." Source: Rob Myers http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/5330 Diversity - the longer you look, di verse it gets. -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]