On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 12:17 +0100, Petr Viktorin wrote: >> On 03/07/2014 10:59 AM, H. Guémar wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I don't think that worrying about perpetuating offensive stereotypes >> > is specifc to the US, we have similar controversies in Europe: >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banania#Controversy >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet#Controversies >> >> Well, read the second article. "92% of the Dutch public don't perceive >> Zwarte Piet as racist". I'm not saying it is or is not, or that it >> should or should not be fixed; I'm saying that there is a culture where >> this is not perceived as a big deal, as opposed to USA where political >> correctness is a big deal. > > Please, keep the term 'political correctness' out of it, as it is an > inherently problematic term. It was invented by one side of the > meta-debate as a stick with which to beat the other side, so its use in > any ostensibly unbiased evaluation is inappropriate. > >> > Anyway, the line between what is acceptable and unacceptable in Fedora >> > should be that no one should be offended by something that directly >> > refers to him or his origins in a negative or hurtful way. >> >> My point is that the list "him/her and his/her origins" seems rather >> arbitrary. Why is e.g. "his/her religion" not on the list? > > There is at least one starkly obvious difference there, which is that > you choose your religious beliefs and affiliations; you do not choose > your race/color/general genetic origin. Well people can choose to not be offended by random images / texts / whatever. There is is the option of "just ignore". But unfortunatly a lot of people don't think that way. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
