On Friday, November 21, 2014 11:48:53 PM UTC+1, Simon King wrote: > > In some post in this thread it was claimed that another post was sexist, > even though there was enough reason to refuse the claim. One person imputed > bad intention to another person, without considering "in dubio pro". Such > questionable, annoying and distracting claims and imputations will occur a > lot more when they can be based on the authority of a code of conduct. I > don't want it. That's how my comment is related with the current discussion. >
+1. I repeat that a code that isn't enforced is worse than no code at all. john perry PS For what it's worth, Simon, I first recall reading about "political correctness" back in the 80s in a right-wing political magazine, shortly before I went to university. The Wikipedia article was illuminating on the term's origin; I had no idea it started on the far left, and moved b/c the neoconservatives imported. Thanks for pointing it out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
