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Debugging conference anti-harassment policiesDebugging conference anti-harassment policiesPosted Feb 1, 2011 11:35 UTC (Tue) by Lovechild (guest, #3592)Parent article: Debugging conference anti-harassment policies
I fundamentally disagree with the whole "am offended by your use of language, you are the one in error" approach to solving any problem. You never had the right not to be offended.
I suffer from Tourette's, meaning that during high stress situation for me such as a conference I am certain to utter words that are 100% sure to offend someone. The thought that this now is likely to have severe adverse effects on my conference experience such as being thrown out and being publicly shamed for it (like people have done with Mark despite the point of his talk and the use of the imagery/words clearly was not to cause offence). And I don't even have to worry about longterm effects on my job situation, whereas I imagine other people do, and don't tell me there won't be any, accused, mistakenly or not.
I will never attend any conference which upholds any such anti-harassment policy, it is simply not conducive to having an enjoyable time and it is likely to end with undeserved pubic humiliation on my part.
To see this in any way declared a victory is painful, everyone was a loser coming out of this, especially Mark.
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Debugging conference anti-harassment policies Posted Feb 1, 2011 12:07 UTC (Tue) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link]
Any sane policy would apply only to voluntary actions, i.e., not words spoken due to Tourette's.
Presumably Mark doesn't have a medical disorder that forces him to say "fuck" and put sexual images in his presentations.
Debugging conference anti-harassment policies Posted Feb 3, 2011 13:46 UTC (Thu) by Lovechild (guest, #3592) [Link]
There are no sane policies when it comes to censorship and protecting people from offense. I've been kicked out of my fair share of busses and establishments before even being given a chance to explain. The on the spot decision is, always, to side with the offended party and while offense lasts a moment, clearing ones name and regaining ones diginity is a far longer process.
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