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Part of the criticism in that Twitter thread seems to be based on a deliberate misreading of the following passage, > If however, anyone feels personally abuse

Part of the criticism in that Twitter thread seems to be based on a deliberate misreading of the following passage, > If however, anyone feels personally abused, threatened, or otherwise uncomfortable due to this process, that is not acceptable. taking it to mean that people feeling abused is not acceptable, rather than abusing people being not acceptable. This deliberate misreading was couched in terms of unearthing some sort of Freudian slip. Seems rather disingenuous to me.

forgottenpass 12y ago
Seems rather disingenuous to me. Then why don't they say "... anyone is abused ..."? They'd also have to create a measurable definition of what qualifies as abuse; but why not? "feels" and "uncomfortable" are weasel words that get be used to interpret this sort of thing broadly as anyone wants. And don't for a second think anger-baitng bloggers won't do exactly that. Individual perception of actions in a social environment are different from intention which is different from the average LKML reader's perception. Critics' have alrady found that their bread and butter exists in the disparity among the three.
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