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[python-committers] Fw: CoC violation (was: Retire or reword the "Beautiful is better than ugly" Zen clause)

Antoine Pitrou antoine at python.org
Fri Sep 21 07:07:42 EDT 2018 
Le 21/09/2018 à 12:55, Christian Heimes a écrit :
> On 21/09/2018 12.46, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>>
>> Le 21/09/2018 à 02:06, Nathaniel Smith a écrit :
>>> Now sure, that taboo is an American thing, and I wouldn't support
>>> automatically banning someone who used it in genuine ignorance, was
>>> repentant when they realized what they'd done, etc.
>>
>> So why are American taboos specifically forbidden, and not other taboos?
>>  Is there anything special about Americans that deserves this?  Does it
>> mean that Python is a community for Americans foremost, and others are
>> just second-class participants?  The more this is going on, the more it
>> is the impression I get, and things have become distinctly *worse* recently.
> 
> I don't understand why you are drawing the reverse conclusion here. Can
> you give me one concrete example, in which a French, German, or any
> other non-US American taboo was violated and not counteracted with swift
> reaction?

I don't know of specifically French linguistic taboos, so I'm unable to
answer this.  French culture generally doesn't ban words wholesale, even
when used in quotes.  The very idea that you can't *quote* something
despicable is foreign here.

But, were it to exist, I have a hard time imagining it would face
immediate permanent banning on python-XXX.  And I would be against such
immediate permanent banning, because that's inappropriately strong and
definitive.

Regards

Antoine.
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