On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 3:43 AM, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tarc, I felt your "lipstick on a pig" comment about a transexual was > not just disgusting, but was a key example of why we needed a WM-LGBT > user group to both highlight and gradually improve a hostile culture > on Wikimedia projects that appeared to allow blatantly anti-LGBT > attitudes and language on its projects under the guise of "being a > joke" or "teasing". > > I stopped following any of the crap related to your defamatory > language, so if you apologised I missed it. If you did apologize, > could you give a link to it, or if not then maybe a thread here or > Wikimedia-l might be a good way of building some bridges with members > of minority groups that you took part in driving away from Wikipedia > through comments like this? > > Thanks, > Fae > > Hi Fae, Tarc wrote during or after the Chelsea Manning case that his comments had been a false-flag operation, intended to shine a spotlight on transphobia. He acknowledged that this was not a good way to do it, and as I recall he apologized.
Sarah
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