On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 22:52 +0100, drago01 wrote: > > 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". That is not a true choice. "Ignoring" the effect of marginalization that such offensive texts ignore is, effectively, opting into it. I'm gay. I can "choose to ignore it" when people yell 'faggot!' at me, but it's not a choice I should be forced, required or expected to make, and in a sense, it feels like a betrayal to the group being discriminated against to do so. Not speaking out is, in a sense, tantamount to accepting that sort of treatment as OK. (Not to criticize those in this or other commonly-discriminated-against groups who do choose to ignore offensive acts; there *are* valid reasons to make that choice in some circumstances, but it is not OK to say "well, that's just what you should always do.") > But unfortunatly a lot of people don't think that way. There are reasons why. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
