Liam R E Quin holoweb.net> writes:
>
> would you prefer to join a community where you're made fun of on a
> routine basis, mocked, ridiculed, made to feel like shit, because you
> were born with one leg shorter than the other?
>
If you looked like "a small, physically deformed (usually hunchback
On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 08:10 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Tristan, your analogy should have been based on a word whose
> legitimate use did *not* precede its use as an epithet.
>
> According to Wiktionary, the word "gimp" has many meanings, one being
> "a limping gait". That meaning, the o
On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 12:49 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> However, I see that Michael Hill also interpreted this as if the point
> were about the word "gimp". Why was that?
For the same reason that you distracted from the main message of my
post. I'll grant that I probably should be calling
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> However, I see that Michael Hill also interpreted this as if the point
> were about the word "gimp". Why was that?
Richard, sorry for the misdirection. I commented on your first message
while replying to your second. The movie was rele
I think we need to split this thread. If people want to debate about how
the community functions then it's a worthy debate and we should have it.
Regarding the gimpnet name. I'm okay with leaving it, and we don't need to
remove it. But we will need to make sure that irc clients have
irc.gnome.o
On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 12:49 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> [...]
> However, I see that Michael Hill also interpreted this as if the point
> were about the word "gimp". Why was that?
Maybe because this is closer to the topic in discussion (which is not to
change the application name, but a DNS r
I sent a message to point out the error of associating GNOME with the
term "open source":
==
As an accessibility user, and noting that GNOME is known for being a
world leader in open source accessibility
I hope not! GNOM
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> I hope not! GNOME is meant to be a leader in free software
> accessibility, and we hope people will think of it as one. If they
> think of GNOME as "open source", we need to set them straight!
Richard, I'll remember this each time I ha
Tristan, your analogy should have been based on a word whose
legitimate use did *not* precede its use as an epithet.
According to Wiktionary, the word "gimp" has many meanings, one being
"a limping gait". That meaning, the one I learned long ago, is not
derogatory.
I suspect that the der
As an accessibility user, and noting that GNOME is known for being a
world leader in open source accessibility
I hope not! GNOME is meant to be a leader in free software
accessibility, and we hope people will think of it as one. If they
think of GNOME as "open source", we need to set the
True, it's good to be forward-thinking; still, radical love is more
needed than radical hate.
I don't think you're advocating outright bigotry, but you're advocating
what the status quo is -- non-radical -- that is, the unchecked
allowance for privileged groups to espouse their views regardless of
On 10 May 2013 15:55, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> I've never heard the word "gimp" used as a slur against handicapped
> people
If it helps, I've never heard the word used this way either. However,
my understanding of the common use of the word isn't any better
(warning; possibly NSFW):
https://www.g
On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 08:55 -0500, meg ford wrote:
Hi Meg,
> In general when people use the term "PC" in the US, they are talking
> about being adopting extra careful/ newly coined language. That's not
> what I'm saying. You wouldn't use the term gimp when talking to
> someone unless you wante
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 5:47 AM, Michael Hill wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
>
>> People have common sense, they know that since we are at the zoo,
>> there actually are monkeys to go see.
>
> Tristan, your analogy should have been based on a word whose
> legi
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