Re: Let's Do the CoC Right

On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:25:58 -0800
Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> wrote:

> When and whom? This is the time for those that had issues to speak up
> either directly or through someone else. In doing so though I would
> expect verifiable information.

Maybe they can't.

Imagine for a second that I'm a homosexual, and that a guy cracked a
crude joke about homosexuals, and three or four people post that it was
a funny joke. Imagine further that I work for one of those troglodyte
employers who would fire me the instant they found out I was a
homosexual, and I come from a family that would disown me if they found
out. I wouldn't speak up. I wouldn't even say "I'm not a homosexual,
but I think your words are hurtful!" Because I would be so afraid of
being found out that I would not give one hint. I'd just leave.

Now imagine I was from one of those countries where homosexuality is
punishable by death.

Speaking up is a privilege often reserved for the in crowd and the
revolutionary.

SteveT

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