On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Joseph Catron <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 6:31 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: >> I used to think I was among friends on this list, but man, this is getting >> really unpleasant. > > Hey, when you're among friends, and you start slinging innuendos, especially > poorly-phrased ones, about things like religion, you may quickly find things > aren't quite so friendly anymore.
To be clear I don't want to be "friends" in the sense of exchanging Christmas cards or something. What I meant by "being among friends" is that I didn't think I needed to be constantly watching my words and talk like a fucking politician in the fear that my words will be misunderstood or misinterpreted and used against me. Is it too much to ask that there should be a presumption of goodwill - or at the very least absence of ill will - in messages sent on this list? That we should assume that there is no one on this list who is actually a racist or sexist or homophobe or Islamo-phobe or anti-Semite or whatever, and there should be a high thrshold for accusing people on the list of such vile things? Even if you don't want to extend that courtesy, don't you at least want to pause before making extremely nasty personally-directed accusations? If you read something that seems inappropriate is it too much trouble to ask for a clarification before calling others names? Anyway I have said my piece and I am through with this. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
