<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div><br></div><div>How low should we set our standard of acceptable behavior? Generally course and vulgar language seems to be the norm. </div><div><br></div><div>In the arts anything goes. Does it mean those are the standards we should for ourselves? </div><div><br></div><div>There is much I find offensive both language and behavioral NB. Not very clear how much consideration for my sentiment is reasonable.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:9px;color:#575757">Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S™III, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone</div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Johny Radio <johnyradio@gmail.com> <br>Date:12/30/2013 11:45 AM (GMT-08:00) <br>To: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> <br>Cc: davidfine <d@vidfine.com>,Noisebridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net> <br>Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] [drama] Oppressive Behavior <br><br>
<div>On 12/30/2013 10:57:37 AM, "hep" <<a href="mailto:dis@gruntle.org">dis@gruntle.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div>you seem intent on giving her a pass </div></div></blockquote>
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<div>Hep, not trying to give anyone a pass. Thanks for your observations. </div>
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<div>My point is, i<span id="d61b911fac9042499fdcc17496f3ac7c">f someone's words offend someone, </span>communication and growth is healthier than <span id="0f4a5234d46b446f925f4200c860fd4c">hostility, and may help avoid the need for a painful, time-consuming judicial process. </span></div>
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<div>It's within the realm of possibility that the person might not have a malevolent bone in her body, and may even have experienced oppression personally. Maybe she would willingly modify her language when at noisebridge, if someone gave her a kindly heads-up (or if we had an Orientation Process, hint-hint :)</div>
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