Hahaha! I appreciate this. Maybe we need to add some statistics to your political-correctness-o-meter to measure how much of the world population is potentially still "on board" at the final slide. This will give a clear insight of how many people will come to the event. ;-) On Jun 24, 2015 3:41 PM, "Iván Sánchez" <i...@sanchezortega.es> wrote:
> El Miércoles 24. junio 2015 12.42.40 Charles Schweik escribió: > > [...] I was raising the question that those slides could turn some women > off > > who are considering attending and I think [...] > > I feel obliged to jump in the thread, because this looks just like a recent > case of "the limits of joking" in Spanish media. > > Imagine this: Person A makes a joke involving person B who was a victim of > a > terrorist bombing. Person C throws a tantrum and tells the media "I'm sure > B > finds A's jokes insulting, thus A must resign from his job"[1]. Then, > person B > jumps in and publicly states that she never felt offended by A's jokes at > all[2]. > > [1] http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2015/06/13/madrid/1434219265_951793.html > [2] > http://www.larazon.es/opinion/columnistas/mas-fuerte-que-el-odio-AF10047124 > > > In other words: Saying "Person A should take this down because I find it > offensive" is perfectly OK. Saying "Person A should take this down because > it > is possibly potentially offensive to a third party" is not OK (and actually > erodes the right to freedom of expression). > > > I need to ask for **evidence-based policy** here. There is a big difference > between a Dali painting *maybe* turning someone off FOSS4G and a Dali > painting > *actually* turning someone off FOSS4G. > > > > Furthermore, there is such a thing like too much political correctness. I > will > illustrate *ad absurdum* by turning my own political-correctness-o-meter > up to > eleven for a second: > > Sanghee should remove slide 15 because blood sausages are maybe potentially > offensive to muslims and vegans. > > Sanghee should remove slide 17 because the kerning can maybe potentially > make > the eyes of experience typesetters bleed. > > Sanghee should remove slides 18 and 19 because they might be potential > triggers for agoraphobics. > > Sanghee should remove slide 22 because it might be potentially insulting to > astronomers concerned by light pollution. > > Sanghee should remove slide 23 because it might be potentially insulting to > "grammar nazis". > > I should remove the previous sentence because someone might potentially > find > "nazis" offensive. > > Sanghee should remove slide 25 because it might be potentially insulting to > geodesists who know circles don't have a meaning outside of distance- > preserving projections (incidentally, these are the same people offended by > EPSG:3857 being used everywhere) and find that FOSS4G is not > representative of > the professionalism required to attend such an event. > > Sanghee should remove slide 30 because the alignment might be a potential > trigger for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. > > Sanghee should remove slides 37-42 because they might be potentially > offensive > to alcoholics and former alcoholics. > > > </rant> > > -- > Iván Sánchez Ortega <i...@sanchezortega.es> <i...@geonerd.org> > <i...@mazemap.no> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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