(Sorry, I meant "many (if not most) non-native English speakers DON'T realize just how explosive certain English locutions can be to American native speakers.") On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 8:32 AM Don Goodman-Wilson <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am an American living in Europe. Let me offer an analogy. Like all > analogies, this one is imperfect, but I think it will serve to make my > point. > > As an American, I don't understand French humor. It's simply beyond > me. I've had it explained to me numerous times, but of course > explaining a joke can't impart its inherent humor. But none of this > should come as a surprise to anyone, as humor is a deeply cultural > artifact, something that can only truly be understood by those raised > within that culture. Even so, we can all appreciate the concept of > humor generally. More to the point, I certainly don't go around > denying that French humor exists, on the basis that I don't get it. > > In the same way, something I've learned living in Europe is that many > (if not most) non-native English speakers realize just how explosive > certain English locutions can be to American native speakers. That's > totally understanable as, like French humor, you have to have been > raised in the culture to really understand that fact. Like humor, we > all have a sense of what offensiveness means, and like humor, this > explosive content is a deeply cultural artifact, something that can > only truly be understood by those raised within that culture. The > visceral feeling of explosive content will probably always be beyond > grasping, just as French humor will probably never make me laugh. > > But to deny that explosive content on the basis that you don't > personally feel it, that you've never experienced it? To claim that it > is "meaningless", that some people are "perpetually offended"? That's > willful ignorance on your part, a bad-faith effort to engage in > serious intellectual conversation about what is good and right, and > has no place in a discussion about creating an inclusive space for all > developers, let alone trying to bring about a more just world. > > Don Goodman-Wilson > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 2:50 AM Sérgio Augusto Vianna > <sergio.a.vianna@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Then why create all this disruption by changing the default from master > > to "main" if you will offer a feature to set the default on creation? > > Americans were discussing trump's tiny hands last week and will have > > moved on to any other meaningless subject the next one. You can > > literally never please the perpetually offended. Taking this kind of > > slacktivism and creating problems for other people is a disgusting level > > of entitlement that only americans display. You really care about > > others? Remember there's other countries in the world. > >
