request for comment re & quot; contributor-covenant.org& quot;

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Thu Feb 4 14:42:46 PST 2016


On 2/4/16, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  >From: grarpamp
> <grarpamp at gmail.com>>http://bigthink.com/videos/john-cleese-on-political-correctness
>>http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/16/02/03/1419247/john-cleese-warns-campus-political-correctness-leading-towards-1984
>>John Cleese says political correctness has gone too far. The very
>>essence of his trade - comedy - is criticism and that not infrequently
>>means hurt feelings. But protecting everyone from negative emotion
>>all the time is not only impractical (one can't control the feelings
>>of another), but also improper in a free society. Cleese, having
>>worked with psychiatrist Robin Skynner, says there may even be
>>something more sinister behind the insistence to be always be
>>politically correct.
> Do a Google search for 'political correctness mass hysteria'.  It is a very
> valid comparison.          Jim Bell

I understand why you allude to an internet search rather than post links.

I recently read a <cough cough>Vinyard of the Saker<cough cough>
article, and have drafted an email, but certain topics cause quite the
reaction in some people...

This is effectively [self] censorship blah blah.



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