Unfortunatelly yes... [LWN.net]

Unfortunatelly yes...

Posted Sep 30, 2007 13:05 UTC (Sun) by niner (guest, #26151)
In reply to: Unfortunatelly yes... by khim
Parent article: To Sir, with Love: How To Get More Women Involved in Open Source (O'ReillyNet)

1. How on earth can one tolerate someone, if one doesn't even know him or what he does? Without an object this action cannot be carried out, so a statement like "they are tolerated because people don't know" ha no meaning at all.

2. That someone is antisocial in general or hates linuxchix in particular does not mean that one has to shut him out and ignore his technical contributions. That's his personal views and he is entitled to that, even if I'd personally think he's a dork. Now if he actively offends someone else (e.g. a woman), not even to mention death threats, that's a whole different issue. That's exactly where toleration has to end.

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Unfortunatelly yes...

Posted Sep 30, 2007 13:41 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I think khim meant that the specific people who made the death threats or
whatever are tolerated in the community because nobody knows that those
specific people made the threats, and that if it was widely known, those
people would (one hopes) be ostracised or in some other way receive
negative social reinforcement. (Being nasty to people who send death
threats seems fine to me. Such people have shown themselves to not be
shrinking violets already.)