On Oct 15, 1:22 pm, ru...@yahoo.com wrote: > Thus when a member of this esteemed group > was recently attacked as racist, for punning another member's > name when responding somewhat heatedly,
Again, there is a difference between "attacking" someone "as racist" and *criticising* their *comments* as *possibly* racist. When the person whose name was being punned said that they themselves were unsure whether it was intended as a racial attack, then the behaviour was worth commenting on. If anything, I initially *joked* about it as a means of trying to point out the issue in a non-offensive way. If there was any "attacking" going on, it was in the criticised party's responses. > hurt the cause of anti-racism My response had nothing to do with "agendas" and "causes" and everything to do with wanting to keep specific forms of discourse off this list. I had identical issues with the same person's use of "bitch" and "whore"; I cannot begin to fathom how stating that they're unacceptable to use here is in any way damaging to the anti-sexism position, or an attack on the person saying them. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list