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I personally believe being a hardass like a drill Sargeant is in a different league altogether than racism/sexism/homophobia. You can be dead serious without b

• lighthawk 11y ago
  > You can be dead serious without being awful. And I agree. That is why I wrote: "That said, you can allow people to be asses and still not allow sexist, racist, etc. remarks." I live with women and girls and respect the hell out of them. We also have homosexual extended family members. I just think that you can also allow people to have angry disagreements as long as they don't cross the weirdo, sexist, racist, homophobe line. Some people need to escalate in order to resolve things because they have technical skills but not people skills. If every great project had to be composed completely of people with great people skills, we'd not have many of the projects we have today (Linux, Rails, etc.).