On Apr 15, 2021, Danny Spitzberg <stationa...@gmail.com> wrote: > the speaker who was airing very reasonable and rational
You got me curious as to what the speaker was getting at. No offense intended, but we've recently been facing situations in which one group launches personal attacks that violate nearly every CoC, but whose members don't even recognize it as a personal attack and perceive it as perfectly justified, whereas another group who complains about the unkindness of the attacks gets labeled as jerks or worse, again, without realization that they're all crossing the line. Point being, since you and I and RMS seem to have quite different points of view and perspectives, it wouldn't surprise me if something that one of us found perfectly reasonable and rational would come across as extremely offensive and unacceptable to another. That's not to say that it would make the response you described right or desirable, but it might make it at least a little more understandable and perhaps tolerable. Does anyone have a pointer to a recording handy? > To be honest, I found the whole outburst— and the audience’s quiet seeming > to condone the outburst — all very depressing. I haven't witnessed this, but if it was as you describe, maybe what you perceived in the audience was probably more like shock paralysis than condoning. I've witnessed such a silence in the audience in one occasion in which he let out a tasteless pun, caught himself a moment too late and paused for a bit, seemingly embarrased and asking for forgiveness, while the audience had that sort of silence of shock and uncertainty as to what to do next. -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hacker https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer Vim, Vi, Voltei pro Emacs -- GNUlius Caesar _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss